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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...

American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...
por William Nicholson - 1819
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Ohio Courts of Record ..., Volumen18

William John Tossell - 1908 - 940 páginas

...It was not a trier of the guilt or innocence of the accused. 4 Blackstone's Commentaries 303, says: "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 accusation, which is afterward to be tried...

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