Rataree v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Jurisdiction. Courts. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. - June Term, 1878. Beported in the décisiou. cited 24 Ga., 420; 46 lb., 324; 36 lb., 447; Code, §§4712, 4386; 26 Ga., 493. cited 2 Bish. Or. Frac., §§55, 56 ; Hopkins’ Penal Code, §1504, and cases cited.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief- Justice,
The defendant was tried in the city court of Atlanta upon a *246written accusation for an “ assault ” upon the person of Alva Moore, without the intervention of a jury, and was found guilty by the court, and sentenced to pay a fine of $200.00, or six months imprisonment. The defendant made a motion in arrest of judgment on the following grounds, to-wit: Because the accusation on which the defendant was arraigned and tried is wholly insufficient in law, the said accusation charging simply an “ assault,” without specifying any act or acts constituting said assault, or without…
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