Brock v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for Gaming, from Forsyth Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, at February Term, 1857. The defendant in the Court below, Thomas TV. Brock, was specially presented by the Grand Jury of Forsyth county, at. August Term, 1856, for the offence of playing and betting at cards.
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Indictment for Gaming, from Forsyth Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, at February Term, 1857. The defendant in the Court below, Thomas TV. Brock, was specially presented by the Grand Jury of Forsyth county, at. August Term, 1856, for the offence of playing and betting at cards. It was agreed between defendant’s counsel and the Solicitor General, that the former would waive the making out and filing the indictment upon the special presentment, if the latter would consider the indictmentfonnd and filed as of that day, the 19th February, 1857, and allow the defendant the benefit of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion.
The defendant was presented at the August Term of 1856, of the Superior Court of Forsyth county. The offénce was charged to have been committed on the 14th day of November, 1854. The Solicitor General and the defendant’s *100.counsel entered into an agreement before the trial, in the following words : “We waive an arraignment, and consent to consider the bill of indictment as filed as of to-day, 19th of February Term, 1857.”
[1.] The defendant’s counsel demurred to the bill of indictment on the ground that it showed on its face, that it was not found…
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