Barker v. State

The defendant was charged with the offense of being a cheat and swindler. It was alleged that, by reason of false representations duly set out in the accusation, the defendant had cheated the prosecutor by obtaining from him “groceries, consisting of meat and other groceries, of the value of one dollar and ten cents.” The defendant, on arraignment and before pleading to the merits, filed a special demurrer, on the ground that there was “no sufficient allegation of the goods alleged to have been obtained.” The accusation was defective. Oglesby v. State, 123 Ga. 506 (51 S. E. 505); Henderson v.…