Bostock v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Practice in the Superior Court. Charge of Court. Motion in arrest of judgment. Before Judge Tompkins. 'Chatham Superior Court. * October Term, 1877. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
The defendant was indicted for the offense of murder, and on his trial therefor was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. A motion was made in arrest of judgment on the grounds therein stated, amongst which are, “ that the allegations in the indictment do not either in the first or second counts thereof, set forth or specify any offense with which defendant is charged.” And because “of the alteration of the second count after indictment found, and because both of the counts are fatally defective.”
Amotion was also made for a new trial on various grounds, both of which…
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