Scroggins v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Affidavit. Jurisdiction. Indictment. Certiorari. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Clark. Sumter county. At Chambers. March 17th, 1875. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
Scroggins, as we gather from the i’eeord, is a colored girlpoor, and without means. She was arrested for an assault and battery upon a white girl, and carried before a justice of the peace living in the militia district in which the county *381town of Sumter county is situated. By an act of the general assembly, passed in 1873, pamphlet page 240, such justice, with a jury, if demanded by the accused, has power to try any misdemeanor, upon written accusation, founded upon affidavit, provided the accused by himself or counsel will sign on the accusation an indorsement in these…
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