Heard v. State

1. “It is well settled by repeated and numerous decisions of the Supreme Court and this court that the striking of a defendant’s plea is not a final judgment in the case, and that a direct bill of exceptions complaining of such a judgment only will not lie. The striking of a plea of former jeopardy comes within this rule.” Giles v. State, 34 Ga. App. 201 (129 S. E. 12) ; English v. Rosenkrantz, 150 Ga. 745 (105 S. E. 292).

2. The bill of exceptions in the instant ease recites that “the defendant, at the proper time, before arraignment and before pleading to the merits of the second indictment,…