Taylor v. State

Walter C. Taylor was tried for bribery, under an indictment containing twenty-five counts. Fourteen of these counts were abandoned by the State, and the jury acquitted the defendant on ten of the remaining counts and found him guilty bn count 20. The case is here upon an exception to the judgment overruling the motion for a new trial, containing the general and many special grounds. However, the first question for determination is presented by exceptions pendente lite to the court’s judgment overruling each and every ground of the defendant’s demurrer to the indictment.

Count 20 of the…