State v. Steele

Steele as prosecutor caused a warrant to be issued against certain persons, charging them with the offense of larceny from the house. When the time arrived for the commitment trial the officer who issued the warrant entered a judgment against the prosecutor for the costs in the case, reciting in such judgment that the prosecutor had before trial abandoned the prosecution. Execution in the name of the. State of Georgia' was issued on this judgment, and the defendant therein interposed an affidavit of illegality, setting up that the execution was proceeding against him illegally, for the reason…