Pratt v. State

The indictment charged N. A. Pratt with the offense of “misdemeanor," for that he did “wilfully and maliciously injure and destroy a certain wooden bridge over and across the Coosawattee river, about five miles below Ellijay, Ga., said bridge being the private property of W. D. Ralston and E. W. Watkins, said bridge being of the value of $200." The judge did not err in holding that the indictment charged the accused with having committed a felony, nor “in forcing him to go to trial as for a felony, when the indictment charged a misdemeanor.” The indictment shows that it was based on section…