DeVere v. State

W. C. DeVere was charged with murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The first question presented for decision is whether the court erred in overruling a special demurrer to the indictment. The other matters to be passed upon are raised *331by the exception to the judgment overruling the motion for a new-trial.

Omitting some of its formal parts, the indictment charges that, on July 22, 1931, in Ware county, Georgia, W. 0. DeVere “did kill and murder by shoving said J. H. Johnson from an automobile running at a rapid rate of speed and by running and did run and operate said automobile…