Downs v. State

H. L. Downs was charged by the grand jury of Douglas County with the offense of misdemeanor, the special pre*670sentment alleging that on the 28th day of November, 1923, he did unlawfully and with force and arms “shoot quail, usually called partridges; said accused did then and there shoot partridges in said county contrary to the act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, approved August 23, 1923.” The defendant, before arraignment and before pleading to the merits of the indictment, filed his demurrer to the same, on the ground that the local law of Douglas County, approved August 23,…