Wright v. State

Wright, after expressly waiving indictment or presentment by a grand jury and lack of jurisdiction in the city court of Statesboro, was tried therein on an accusation preferred against him for the offense of blackmail. Upon the return of a verdict of guilty the defendant filed a motion in arrest of judgment, and attacked the jurisdiction of the court to try him for the offense of blackmail without an indictment or presentment of a grand jury first having been returned against him, even though he had expressly waived the same. The only question which presents itself, *217therefore, is whether one…