Minor v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Jury. Tippling-house. Evidence. Charge of Court. Oertiora/ri. Before Judge Wright. Dougherty County. At Chambers. July 18, 1879. Minor was placed on trial in the county court for the offense of keeping open a tippling-house on the Sabbath-day, and also for retailing without license. He was convicted in each case. He presented petitions for the writ of certiorari, alleging as erroneous the rulings set forth in the opinion.
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Criminal law. Indictment. Jury. Tippling-house. Evidence. Charge of Court. Oertiora/ri. Before Judge Wright. Dougherty County. At Chambers. July 18, 1879. Minor was placed on trial in the county court for the offense of keeping open a tippling-house on the Sabbath-day, and also for retailing without license. He was convicted in each case. He presented petitions for the writ of certiorari, alleging as erroneous the rulings set forth in the opinion. The writs were refused, and he excepted. The cases were argued together in this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
The indictments were demurred to in due time, and the points against them may be considered as these three: that they gave the initials only, and not the full Christian names of some of the grand jurors; that the foreman of the.grand jury was over age, and his name was not in the jury-box; and that the names of the grand jnvors were not inserted in the indictments by the jurors themselves, but were all in one and the same hand-writing.
*3201. However it may be elsewhere, in this state men are frequently as well known by their initials as by their given or Christian names in full.…
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