This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The examination and discharge by one magistrate of one accused of a crime is not a bar to another examination before some other magistrate for the same offense upon proper complaint being made. Such examination is not a trial in any sense whatever.28 And of course the discharge of an accused by a magistrate on such preliminary hearing is no bar to the grand jury investigating the same matter, and the grand jury may indict if the evidence is sufficient to warrant an indictment.
 
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