Hornsby v. State

1. The indictment charged the defendant with burglarizing “the store-house and place of business of the Piedmont Peed and Grocery Company, a corporation.” The name “The Piedmont Peed and Grocery Company” connotes a corporation, and the allegation in the indictment that it was a corporation was surplusage and did not have to *306be proved, since the corporate entity of the company was not in issue upon the defendant’s trial. Ager v. State, 2 Ga. App. 158 (58 S. E. 374); Moore v. State, 27 Ga. App. 781 (2) (110 S. E. 55).

Decided June 26, 1934. Ií. A. Allen, L. O. Dotson, for plaintiff in error.…