Barton v. State

Stewart Barton was indicted in the Superior Court of Columbia County for sodomy. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The defendant’s motion to quash the indictment “in the nature of a general demurrer” was overruled and he filed exceptions pendente lite- His .motion for a new trial as amended, containing the general and two special grounds, was overruled and he excepted..Omitting the formal part, the indictment was in the following language: “For that said accused . . did then and there have carnal knowledge and connection,. against the order of nature, and in an…