Jackson v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. In preparing the indictment the names of three persons, John Jackson, Sam Curby and Ella Littlejohn, were originally written therein as the accused; but it would seem that before sending it to the grand jury the solicitor-general had erased the names of the two latter, leaving that of Jackson as the only person accused oi the crime. A demurrer to the indictment complained that the personal pronouns “ they, their and them” appeared throughout the indictment as referring to the party indicted, and that nowhere did the singular pronouns “ he, his and him” appear as referring…