Loyd v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Acccessories. Arrest of judgment. Before Judge Schley. Chatham Superior Court. January Term, 1870. The indictment charged John Quarterman, Frank Loyd and James Ward, negroes, with burglary in the day time.
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Criminal law. Acccessories. Arrest of judgment. Before Judge Schley. Chatham Superior Court. January Term, 1870. The indictment charged John Quarterman, Frank Loyd and James Ward, negroes, with burglary in the day time. It first charged Quarterman, in the usual form, as the actual perpetrator, of the crime, and then charged “that the said Frank Loyd and James Ward, in the county aforesaid, on the day and year aforesaid, and before the committing of the felony, burglary and larceny aforesaid, in manner and form aforesaid, were accessories thereto before the fact, and did, then and there,…
1Opinion of the CourtLochrane, C. J.
This was an indictment for burglary, tried in Chatham Superior Court, in which these two plaintiffs in error were found guilty as accessories after the fact; and the case presents two points for the adjudication of this Court. Eirst, whether the indictment charges sufficiently in law the offense; and secondly, whether the evidence sustains it; and we may add, thirdly, whether the charge of the Judge was a proper statement of the law in this case.
The indictment charges Loyd and Ward with being accessories before the fact. Its language is: “And did then and there unlawfully, burglariously, and…
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