Dean v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Before Judge Strozier. Decatur Superior Court. April Term, 1871. This indictment against Dean contained two counts. In the first, he was charged with assaulting one Andrews, with a knife, with intent to murder him, giving time, place, etc. In the other, giving same time, place, etc., he was charged with having stabbed said Andrews with a knife. His counsel moved to quash the indictment, because of said joinder of counts.
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Criminal law. Before Judge Strozier. Decatur Superior Court. April Term, 1871. This indictment against Dean contained two counts. In the first, he was charged with assaulting one Andrews, with a knife, with intent to murder him, giving time, place, etc. In the other, giving same time, place, etc., he was charged with having stabbed said Andrews with a knife. His counsel moved to quash the indictment, because of said joinder of counts. The motion was overruled, and it was ordered that the trial should proceed. No copy of the bill of indictment, or of the list of witnesses sworn before the…
1Opinion of the Court
Loghrane, Chief Justice.
This was an indictment for the offense of assault with intent to murder, tried in Decatur county. A motion was made to quash the indictment, upon the ground that there was a misjoinder of counts in the same instrument, which was overruled by the Court. The case proceeded to trial and the jury found a general verdict of guilty, upon which a motion was made in arrest of judgment, upon the ground, first, that the defendant was not furnished, previous to his arraignment, with a copy of the indictment and a list of the witnesses who gave testimony before the grand jury, nor…
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