Harris v. State

The defendant was indicted for a felony. Upon the trial he filed a timely plea in abatement containing several grounds. Upon demurrer by the State, several of the grounds were stricken, and that judgment was excepted to pendente lite and subsequently excepted to in the bill of exceptions. Other rulings upon the plea in abatement, which it is not necessary to particularize, were also excepted to pendente lite and in the bill of exceptions. The court submitted to the jury one issue which was raised by one ground of the plea in abatement, and a verdict against the plea was returned by the jury.…