Fisher v. State

Judgment reversed,.

For plea in abatement defendants set up that one of the grand jurors who found the indictment was an agent of the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company (the company named in the indictment), and that that company was the real prosecutor, although the name of Jolin Harris appears as such on the indictment. A demurrer to this plea was sustained, and the defendants excepted. They also excepted to the overruling of their motion for a new trial, after a verdict finding them guilty. This motion alleges that the verdict is contrary to law and evidence, especially in that the proof of…