Case ID: nc_6/html/0060-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Couet.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Clayton Smith.
    From Rutherford.
    Where the Grand Jury return a bill of indictment, “ Not a true bill/' the prosecutor is bound to pay the witnesses for the State, and one half of the other costs.
    A bill of indictment for perjury was preferred against the Defendant, by one William Graham, who was in-, dorsed thereon as prosecutor. The Grand Jury returned the bill “ Not a true billand a question arose. Who-iher the prosecutor was bound to pay the witnesses for the State ? and that question was sent to this Court.
   By the Couet.

The prosecutor is bound to pay the witnesses for the State, and one half of the other costs.