Hicks v. State

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals her conviction for the offense of prostitution. Held:

1. The state charged the defendant with prostitution, using an accusation alleging this misdemeanor. Defendant demurred on several bases and the trial court sustained the demurrer. "The sustaining of a special demurrer, the result of which is either to strike from or add to the material allegations of an indictment is equivalent to sustaining a general demurrer and quashing the indictment.” Gentry v. State, 63 Ga. App. 275, 276 (11 SE2d 39). In the instant case one of the grounds was that the…