Hughes v. State

Counsel for the defendant call our attention to Locke v. State, 3 Ga. 534, 539. It is plain from reading that case that the only issue there was that under the bastardy statute, an indictment which fails to allege that the accused was the father of the child, was fatally defective; that issue has nothing to do with the facts in the instant case. Our attention is called to Franklin v. State, 85 Ga. 570, 572 (11 S. E. 876). The only question involved in that case was, that the accused had been indicted for a simple assault, and after he had been put in jeopardy, the State without the consent of…