Case Name: The Commonwealth v. Williams
Court: General Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1848-12
Citations: 5 Gratt. 702
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Commonwealth v. Williams.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 46
Pages: 702–703

Head Matter:
The Commonwealth v. Williams.
(Absent Field and Scott, J’s.)
The omission by the grand jury to write the name of the witness on whose testimony an indictment is found, at the foot thereof, is no ground for quashing the indictment.
Lina Williams was indicted for a trespass, in the Circuit Court of Greenbrier. He appeared and moved the Court to quash the indictment, because the name of the witness, upon whose testimony it was found, was not written at the foot of the indictment: and thereupon the Court, with the consent of the defendant, adjourned to this Court the following questions :
1. Whether the indictment ought, for the reason stated in said motion, to be quashed ?
2. What judgment ought the Court to render upon said motion?

Opinion:
By the Court.
The first question adjourned is to be answered in the negative. And as to the second question, it is answered that the motion ought to be overruled.
The Commonwealth v. Dever, 10 Leigh 685, is sufficient authority for this decision.