Gaines v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

To an accusation, charging the accused with driving and operating an automobile upon a designated street in the City of Oglethorpe while “said machine was not provided and equipped with sufficient and serviceable brakes,” the accused filed a demurrer upon the grounds: (a) that said accusation fails to charge the accused with any criminal offense; (b) that the accusation is so vague, indefinite, general, and uncertain as not to put the defendant on notice as to what he is required to defend; (c) that the first sentence (quoting it) of the act of August 23, 1927 (Ga. L. 1927, p.…