Washington v. State

1. Where two defendants are jointly indicted and jointly tried, and make a joint motion for a new trial, a joint writ of error to review the judgment overruling the motion can properly be sued out. Harnage v. State, 7 Ga. App. 573 (2) (67 S. E. 694); Walden v. State, 9 Ga. App. 584 (1) (71 S. E. 945).(a) Where, however, two defendants, after being jointly indicted and jointly tried, make separate motions -for a new trial, and the court passes separate written orders overruling the motions, the defendants cannot bring their cases to this court in one bill of exceptions. This is true because,…