Case ID: ind-l-rep_1/html/0627-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Elliott.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Indiana v. Linas Henderson.
    
      Criminal Law—Affidavit.—The affidavit on which a prosecution for an offence is based must state that the defendant was in custody on the charge preferred against him, and that the grand jury of the county was not in session.
    Filed June 17, 1881.
    Appeal from Orange Circuit Court.
    Attorney General and Mavity, for appellant.
   Opinion of the court by

Mr. Justice Elliott.

This appeal is prosecuted by the State, and calls in question the correctness of the ruling of the court below sustaining appellee’s motion to quash.

The affidavit was insufficient, for the reason that it did not state that the appellee was in custody on the charge preferred against him, and that the grand jury of the county was not in session. There were jurisdictional facts, and the affidavit, which was the basis of the prosecution, was fatally defective in omitting to aver the facts which authorized the court to assume and exercise jurisdiction. State v. Burroughs (last term); Lindsey v. State, 72 Ind. 39; Lams v. State, 69 Ind. 130.

Judgment affirmed.