
    United States v. Tompkins.
    The Court will not quash an indictment because there was no previous presentment, or order of the Court.
    Indictment for forgery.
    
      Mr. F. S. Key, for the defendant,
    moved to quash the indictment because there had not been a previous presentment, or order of the Court; nor was it found by the grand jury of their own knowledge, according to the Maryland Act of 1722, c. 5.
   But

the Couet

(Fitzhugh, J., absent,)

refused.  