Ridenhour v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Indictment. Officers. Malpractice in Office. Charge of Court. Jury and Jurors. Constitutional Law. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court.
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Criminal Law. Indictment. Officers. Malpractice in Office. Charge of Court. Jury and Jurors. Constitutional Law. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1885. To the report contained in the decision, it is necessary to add only that the court refused to charge that, in a criminal case, the jury are the judges of the law and the facts, and instead charged as follows: “ I am requested to charge you, gentlemen, that the jury, in criminal cases, are judges of the law and the facts. Juries, in criminal cases, are judges of the law as given them in charge by the court. It is the…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for malpractice in office as a justice of the peace, in that he wilfully and knowingly demanded and received more costs than he was *384entitled to under the law; he was found guilty, and he moved the court, for a new trial, on numerous grounds, which the court overruled and refused, and he excepted, and assigns as error the refusal of the new trial upon each and all of the grounds set forth in the motion.
1. The first ground is that the court erred in sustaining a demurrer to his special plea that he had not been served with a copy of the…
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