Turner v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for the offense of abandonment (wilfully and voluntarily) of his illegitimate child and leaving said child in a dependent condition. He was notified by the clerk of the superior court of an arraignment date and thereafter he waived formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty in the Superior Court of Wayne County, Georgia. The superior court, noting that the case was a misdemeanor, transferred it to the State Court of Wayne County.

Whereupon defendant moved that the case be dismissed by the State Court of Wayne County since he contended that issue…