Warren v. State

1. “While a defendant cannot, as a general rule, be- charged with separate and distinct offenses in the same indictment, yet it is well settled that offenses of the same nature and differing only in degree may be joined in one count in the same indictment; and it is as clearly settled that offenses, though not of the same nature, if they constitute hub one transaction, may also he joined in one count in the same indictment.” (Italics ours.) Mitchell v. State, 6 Ga. App. 554 (65 S. E. 326). See also Lawrence v. State, 10 Ga. App. 786 (1), 788 (74 S. E. 300), and citations. Under this ruling,…