Jackson v. State

In the city court of Macon the plaintiff in error was accused, under section 311 of the Penal Code of 1910, of obstructing legal process by “threatening and attempting to cut” with a large knife W. S. Pool, a deputy sheriff of the municipal court of Macon, “in executing and attempting to execute a legal process.” In the absence of a demurrer the accusation might have been sufficient to support a conviction without the allegation that the accused attempted to cut the officer with a large knife (Harrison v. State, 26 Ga. App. 645, 107 S. E. 90; Moses v. State, 6 Ga. App. 251 (2), 64 S. E. 699);…