Groves v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Malpractice. Indictment. Presentment. Jury and Jurors. Before Judge Estes. Haber-sham Superior Court. March Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision it is only "necessary to add that the grand jury presented Groves, the ordinary, for malpractice in office.
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Criminal Law. Malpractice. Indictment. Presentment. Jury and Jurors. Before Judge Estes. Haber-sham Superior Court. March Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision it is only "necessary to add that the grand jury presented Groves, the ordinary, for malpractice in office. The presentment contained several counts, which charged the defendant respectively with failing to make his returns to the grand jury, with failing to bring the county taxes collected to a settlement, with issuing orders, knowing that the county did not owe the payee, and wilh passing and carrying into effect an…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
By special presentment of the grand jury, the plaintiff in error was charged with the offense of malpractice in office, in several counts therein specified. It was entered on the presentment by the solicitor general that the defendant was served personally with a copy of this indictment and list of witnesses before the same was sent before or acted on by the grand jury.”
The defendant to this accusation demurred to the same, on the. ground that he cannot be held to answer said charge upon a presentment of a grand jury, but can be held liable to answer said charge only on…
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