Cooper v. State

The bill of exceptions in the present case alleges that the superior court of Gwinnett county erred in overruling a certiorari sued out by W. O. Cooper to review a verdict rendered in the city court of Lawrenceville, finding him guilty of an assault, upon an indictment for assault a.nd bat* tery, which had been transferred from the superior court.

*1201. The petition for certiorari complains that the judge of the city court erred in overruling a demurrer to the indictment,, based upon the ground that one of the grand jurors was a brother-in-law of the person alleged to have been assaulted.…