Case Name: STATE v. JEHU EVANS
Court: Delaware Court of Quarter Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1800-04
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 251
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE v. JEHU EVANS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 251–252

Head Matter:
STATE v. JEHU EVANS.
Court of Quarter Sessions. Sussex.
April, 1800.
Wilson’s Red Book, 272.
Attorney General.
Defendant must show there is a prosecutor before he can be required to indorse.
Vining
pressed a different construction of the Act and the propriety generally of such a regulation.

Opinion:
Per Curiam. Booth, C. J.
(To Mr. Ridgely:) Sir, you need not argue it. The Act of Assembly says the prosecutor not a prosecutor and does not require a prosecutor on every indictment. Defendant may prove there is a person prosecuting, and then he must indorse. We cannot presume it; the grand jury may have found the presentment on their own knowledge or have sent for witnesses.