Jackson v. State

1. The solicitor of a city court may amend an accusation in that court at any time before the defendant therein has pleaded to the merits, provided the affidavit of the prosecutor will legally support the accusation as amended, unless such amendment is forbidden by the act creating the court. Goldsmith v. State, 2 Ga. App. 283 (58 S. E. 486). The act creating the city court of Fitzgerald (Acts of 1905, p. 222) not forbidding the amendment of accusations, the court did not err in allowing the accusation in the present case to be amended by alleging that the defendant was a laborer, instead óf…