Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Waiver. Practice. Before Judge Miller. Houston superior court. April term, 1892. Separate accusations were preferred in Houston county court against Bedford, Brown and Kendrick, charging each of them with assault and battery, in that they did assault and beat Allen Lockett on the 26th of June, 1891. The defendants waived indictment and trial by jury, and were tried in the county court and convicted. A certiorari was sustained and a new trial awarded.
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Criminal law. Waiver. Practice. Before Judge Miller. Houston superior court. April term, 1892. Separate accusations were preferred in Houston county court against Bedford, Brown and Kendrick, charging each of them with assault and battery, in that they did assault and beat Allen Lockett on the 26th of June, 1891. The defendants waived indictment and trial by jury, and were tried in the county court and convicted. A certiorari was sustained and a new trial awarded. “On the return of said case to the county court,” the defendants “gave notice that they would‘demand an indictment by the grand…
1Opinion of the Court
*340 Judgment reversed.
C. C. Duncan, for plaintiff's in error. W. H. Eelton, Jr , solicitor-general, contra.
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