Legal Opinion

Adams v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Criminal law. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge HiLLYER. Newton Superior Court. MarchTerm, 1880. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Crawford, Justice.

The defendant in the court below was indicted for bastardy at the March term of Newton superior court, and at the September term next thereafter, he by his counsel asked leave to place “a demand” for trial on the minutes, which was granted. At the March term, 1880, a discharge was moved, by an order reciting the fact that a demand for trial had been placed on the minutes at the preceding term, at which, as well as at that, there were juries regularly impaneled and qualified to try the said cause.

The court refused to pass the order and discharge the prisoner, because the “…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Hunley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  2. Bush v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1979
  3. Woodall v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1920
  4. Redstrom v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999
  5. Harris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1951

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