 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...twenty-three, that twelve may be a majority. They then withdraw to receive indictments, which are referred to them in the name of the king, but at the suit of...only to hear evidence on the part of the prosecution ; for the finding of an indictment is but in the nature of an inquiry or accusation, which is afterwards... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...of their inquiry by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | William Hawley Atwell - Criminal law - 1916 - 818 pages
...of their inquiry by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. Then they withdarw to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution; for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 1400 pages
...from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw to «it and receive indictments, whicli are preferred to them in the name of the king, but...prosecutor: and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution: for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Gregory D. Woods - Criminal justice, Administration of - 2002 - 488 pages
...enquiry, by a charge [speech] from the judge who presides upon the bench.29 They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution: for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an enquiry or... | |
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This grand jury are previously instructed in the articles of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them in the name of the king, but at the suit... 
