Legal Opinion

Thompson v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided July 27, 1916No. 7441PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Indictment for libel; from Bibb superior court — Judge Mathews. March 1, 1916.

1Opinion of the CourtHodges, J.

1. The law does not require the grand jury to keep minutes of its proceedings. The fact that the clerk or secretary of the grand jury did keep such minutes does not preclude a witness from testifying as to what was said and done in the grand-jury room on a consideration of an indictment. The court did not err in permitting the witness to testify that the prosecutor, being regularly drawn and impaneled on the grand jury, was excluded from the grand-jury room while the grand jury was considering the indictment found in this ease. Green v. State, 124 Ga. 343 (52 S. E. 431).

2. The defendant…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Green v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Davis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1959
  2. Perry v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1968

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