Ingram v. State

At the September term, 1904, of Hancock superior court, the grand jury returned an indictment against Jonas Ingram, charging him with having committed the offense of adultery and fornication with one Carry Barnes, he being a married man and she an unmarried woman. The indictment was transferred to the city court of Sparta, in which court the case came on to be tried, at the October term, 1905, thereof. After the jury had been empaneled and sworn and the State had introduced its evidence and closed, the court, being of opinion “that the evidence developed that a felony and not a misdemeanor…