King v. State

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

“If a verdict, when construed with the indictment, does not find the defendant guilty of any offense, the judgment should be arrested; but where, regardless of the denomination of the offense, the allegations of the indictment charge, even imperfectly, a violation of the law, which can be plainly understood by the jury, and a verdict finding the defend- and guilty can not be ignored without violating the rules of common sense, sentence should be pronounced upon the finding.” Lanier v. State, 5 Ga. App. 472, 476 (63 S. E. 536); Rumph v. State, 60 Ga. App. 689 (4 S. E.…