Pursley v. State

1. The accusation was not subject to the ground of the . demurrer which alleged that the accusation was duplicitous in that the defendant was charged with the commission of two offenses in the same count, to wit, assault and battery and riot. See Carter v. State, 7 Ga. App. 44 (65 S. E. 1072); Mitchell v. State, 6 Ga. App. 554 (1) (65 S. E. 326).

2. The accusation wras not bad in substance or in form because in the first count it charged the accused and his codefendants with -riot, and in the second count charged them with assault and battery, since it appears from the accusation that both…