Hodges v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

This case is here on certiorari, assigning error upon the ruling of the Court of Appeals (98 Ga. App. 97, 104 S. E. 2d 704) that “The allegations of the first three counts of the accusation, which charged offenses committed more than two years prior to the date of the accusation and which alleged a prior accusation, and that it was subsequently nol prossed, were sufficient as against the demurrers, . . . which attacked these counts as being barred by the statute of limitations.” Held:

1. Code § 27-601 (4), which applies to accusations as well as indictments (Flint v. State, 12…