Turner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Jury and Jurors. Assault and Battery. Pleadings. Before Judge Adams. Chatham Superior Court. June Term, 1886. Turner was indicted, together with one Studstill, for assault with intent to murder, charged to have been committed on William Sullivan. On the trial, Turner filed pleas in abatement, which are set out in the decision, and they were overruled.
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Criminal Law. Jury and Jurors. Assault and Battery. Pleadings. Before Judge Adams. Chatham Superior Court. June Term, 1886. Turner was indicted, together with one Studstill, for assault with intent to murder, charged to have been committed on William Sullivan. On the trial, Turner filed pleas in abatement, which are set out in the decision, and they were overruled. The evidence for the State showed, in brief, as follows: Sullivan was walking on a street in Savannah at night, when he met Turner and Studstill. He said good evening to Turner, to which the latter replied, “Go to h — 1, you son of…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of the offence of an assault with intent to murder, and being dissatisfied, brings the case on assignments of error before this court.
1. The first assignment is, that the court erred in overruling a plea in abatement to the effect that the judge of the superior court drew more than thirty grand jurors, and that of those who found true the bill of indictment, four were among those drawn after thirty had been drawn, and that one Joseph A. Huger was drawn as a grand juror, and Joseph A. Huger, jr., served as such grand juror; that they…
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