ERVIN, Justice.
The defendant asserts that his conviction and sentence in the superior court are invalid because he was tried upon the original warrant rather than upon an indictment found by a grand jury.
When the representatives of the freemen of North Carolina met in convention at Halifax in 1776 to frame a constitution for the newly born state, they knew how grossly the English Crown had abused its legal power to prosecute its subjects upon informations...
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