Jones v. State

While disqualification of a grand juror propter defectum may be good ground for quashing a criminal accusation preferred by the grand jury of which he was a member (Clackum v. State, 55 Ga. App. 44, 189 S. E. 397), this objection can not be raised for the first time, after verdict, by motion for new trial. Kato v. State, 33 Ga. App. 342 (126 S. E. 266), and cit. The complaint made in the first special ground of the motion for new trial, that one of the grand jurors who returned the indictment against the defendant was not a duly qualified grand juror, in that he was not drawn by the court to…