Sarnie v. State

Jordan, Chief Justice.

The Solicitor of the State Court of DeKalb County filed an accusation against Francis Arthur Sarnie, Jr., the appellant, which charged that “without provocation, [the appellant did] unlawfully use, to and of one E. L. Victoria Sweeney and in her presence, the following opprobrious words or abusive language, to wit: T hear that you sleep with the faculty. Whore.’, said words used were fighting words.”

At trial, the trial judge held that the accusation accused the appellant of a violation of Code Ann. § 26-2610, subsection (b), and, accordingly, charged said subsection to…