Bowen v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Officers. Indictment. Practice in Supreme Court. Practice in superior court. Before Judge Pain. Barlow superior court. January term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This was a special presentment charging Bowen with the offence of shooting at another. On his arraignment he pleaded specially that the presentment was not returned into court by the grand jury, nor by any sworn officer, but was privately handed to the solicitor-general by only one member of the grand jury. The plea was demurred to, and the demurrer sustained. This is one of the grounds of the motion for a new trial.
Had the minutes of the court shown that the special presentment was returned at the term at which it was found, the presumption would have been that it was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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