McDow v. State

1: Errors alleged to have been committed upon the trial of a special plea of misnomer in a criminal case do not constitute and can not be considered as proper grounds of a motion for a new trial in the main case ; and this is so although the same jurors passed upon the special plea and upon, the case in chief, it appearing that the two investigations were conducted independently of each other, that the jurors were separately sworn in each, and that there was no direct motion to set aside the finding on the special plea. Kneeland v. State, 62 Ga. 395; Boisclair v. State, 92 Ga. 453.

2. An…