Worthy v. State

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

A Lamar County grand jury returned an indictment against Vernon Worthy for false imprisonment, aggravated assault, and pointing a gun at another. His case is before us on interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of several motions, as follows. Worthy, an officer with the Morehouse College Police Department, filed a motion to quash the indictment, arguing that he was denied his right as a police officer to be present and to make a statement when the evidence against him was presented to the grand jury. Later, Worthy filed another motion to quash the indictment,…