Blau v. State

Citations

• 82 Miss. 514

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Procedure. Grand jury. Influenced by court. Indictment quashed. Code 1892, §§120,1121. Dealing in futures.</p> <p>It is sufficient ground for tlie quashal of a subsequently returned indictment (under Code 1892, §§ 1120, 1121, making it a crime to deal in futures) that the grand jury sought to be finally discharged without indicting defendant and the court refused to ■discharge them, and thereupon instructed them specifically touching the criminal character of defendant’s business, saying that the law was plain and the court of opinion that they had sufficient evidence to find an indictment, that other grand juries had indicted, and that the business in’which defendant was engaged was a flagrant violation of the statute.</p>