In that case Judge Sprague charged the Grand Jury that, under the law, the prisoner could only be tried in Key West, because that was the first port which the vessel had made after he had been captured and confined as a prisoner.
The forgery was detected before the grand jury, and he compelled to acknowledge the fact, although he had sworn to the translation as being correct in all its parts.
I have seen a complete file of all the depositions made before the grand jury in Burr's possession.
Where military authority bears sway, where the courts are overborne, is it not an absurdity to say that you must have a presentment of a grand jury, and a trial in a court.
Did any body ever hear of the presentment of a grand jury in a case where a court-martial set for the trial of a military offense, or the trial of a person charged with any offense cognizable before it?
Chief Justice Jay in charging a grand jury, and Associate Justice Wilson in a carefully prepared law lecture, had announced the same conclusion.
Day after day, court, grand jury, counsel, and spectators awaited the coming of Wilkinson.
A grand jury, generally composed of twelve or more men selected from ordinary citizens, is brought together every term of court.
After being detained over night, the clerk was taken before the Grand Jury.
Fortunately the power of a grand jury is fully equal to the emergency.
A presentment is a notice taken by a grand jury of any offence or crime of which they may have knowledge.
An information is an action or prosecution for some offence against the government, and it is based not on a grand jury indictment, but on a statement or complaint made on oath by a competent witness.
Every county court, and every circuit having like jurisdiction, has a jury to try issues of fact, and a grand jury.
But, as will be seen hereafter, he must be indicted by a grand jury before he can be tried.
The jury by which issues of fact are tried, as distinguished from a grand jury, is called a petty or petit jury.
In those of the British colonies in which by settlement or statute the English criminal law runs, the form of indictment is substantially the same, and is found by a grand jury as in England.
English law, a formal accusation in writing laid before a grand jury and by them presented on oath to a court of competent jurisdiction.
Whoever is indicted by a Grand Jury must go to trial, unless, in the opinion of the trial Judge, extraordinary conditions indicate that some inquiry should be made to be conducted solely by himself.
Webb was a deputy in Ford's office when Ford was Attorney-General, and it was Ford who got him to come down here and 'butt in' at the time you were impaneling the Grand Jury.
The Supreme Court has decided that a man has the right to be investigated by a Grand Jury of nineteen men who are qualified according to the statute and none others.
And thus closed as much as we feel necessary to describe of that extraordinary scene--a grand jury room in the year 1804, or thereabouts.
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