Legal Opinion

White v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 6, 1910No. 2425PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Indictment for burglary; from Sumter superior court — Judge Littlejohn. January 5, 1910.

1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.

1. A judgment overruling a demurrer to an indictment can not be made a ground for a new trial. Such a judgment must be excepted to directly, either pendente lite or in the bill of exceptions. Sconyers v. State, 6 Ga. App. 804 (65 S. E. 814).

2. Where one opens from the outside a bolted window of a dwelling house,' by lifting the latch, and thus enters the house, except as to his lower limbs, and is then detected and prevented from making further entrance, there is a sufficient “breaking and entering,” within the meaning of the statute defining burglary. Cooper v. State, 69 Ga. 761.

3. No error…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sconyers v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1909

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Poole v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1974
  2. Coney v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1971
  3. Igle v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1996
  4. Batchelor v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1997
  5. Evans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1916

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