Forster v. State

Walter Forster was indicted for assault and battery. The indictment contained nine counts. Counts 1, 3, 5, >6, 7, and 9 were nolprossed. The jury found the defendant guilty •on count 4, and not guilty on counts 2 and 8. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted. Count 4 charged that the •defendant, in Fulton County, Georgia, on March 21, 1938, committed an assault and battery upon Bert Harris, by striking and beating him with a heavy leather strap, and that “the perpetrator cf said offense was unknown until March 24, 1940.” This is virtually a companion case of Eidson v. State,…