Court Opinion

ID: 3247802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:19:29.926755+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:48.025056
License: Public Domain

The indictment contained in this record fails to show a compliance with the mandatory provisions of section 7300 of the Code 1907, which provides that, in order to find a legal indictment against a person in this state, the concurrence of at least twelve grand jurors is necessary, and, when so found, it must be indorsed "a true bill," and the indorsement signed by the foreman. The indictment here contains no such indorsement and is in consequence not a valid indictment and will not support a conviction. This identical question has been so decided in numerous decisions of this court and of the Supreme Court. Hanners v. State, 17 Ala. App. 597, 88 So. 55; McMullen v. State, 17 Ala. App. 504, 86 So. 175; Whitley v. State, 166 Ala. 42, 52 So. 203; Mose v. State, 35 Ala. 425. See also cases cited in Hanners v. State, supra.
On the trial of this cause numerous exceptions were reserved to the rulings of the court; but as the indictment contained in the record is invalid, for the reasons above stated, there is no necessity to consider the several questions presented.
Reversed and remanded.