Ricks v. State

MacIntyre, J..An indictment, charging the use of obscene language in-the presence of a female, was found in the superior court of Bibb County, and by that court transferred to the city court of Macon. The following plea in abatement, properly sworn to, was filed to the indictment: “Because the indictment does not show that it has ever been filed in the superior court of Bibb County, Georgia, and entered and recorded on the minutes of Bibb superior court, as is required by law, and the indictment does not have on its face the stamp of authenticity.; it not appearing that said indictment was…