Bennings v. State

1. While a defendant can not be charged with separate and distinct offenses in one count of an indictment, offenses of the same nature and differing only in degree may be joined in one count of the same indictment; and offenses not of the same nature, but blended together by concurrent acts so that they constitute but one transaction, may likewise be so joined. The test is whether the acts charged in the indictment relate to but one transaction. Mitchell v. State, 6 Ga. App. 554 (65 S. E. 326); Lawrence v. State, 10 Ga. App. 786 (74 S. E. 300); Ramsey v. State, 33 Ga. App. 77 (125 S. E. 777).…