McWilliams v. State

1. Where one was indicted at the March term, 1897, for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, the charge being general in its terms, and was tried and convicted; and at the September term, 1897, another general indictment of the same kind was returned against him, in which the time of the commission of the alleged offense was laid prior to the finding of the first indictment; and where the accused filed a plea of former conviction, which was traversed by the State, and the proof established the above facts, the plea should have been sustained. Bryant v. State, 97 Ga. 105; Craig v. State,…