Byington v. State

Frankum, Judge.

1. On July 12, 1961, B. Grady Byington was convicted in the City Court of Polk County of the offense of barratry under an indictment which had been transferred to that court by the superior court of said county. The indictment charged that on the 4th day of July 1959, he did . . seek out and propose to another person, to wit: Mrs. Betty Ann Queen, that she present and urge a suit in tort for the death of her husband, Jimmy D. Queen, against the Central of Georgia Railway Company. . .” (By the time of the trial Betty Ann Queen had remarried and was Betty Ann Doeg, however, for…