Palmer v. State

SEARS, Chief Justice.

In 2003, the General Assembly enacted the statute presently codified at OCGA § 17-7-110, 1 thereby changing the judicially established deadline for the filing of special demurrers from arraignment to ten days after arraignment. Three years later, a Stephens County grand jury indicted Stacy Palmer on 24 counts of sexual exploitation of children. Although Palmer filed his special demurrers challenging the indictment within ten days after his arraignment, the trial court dismissed the demurrers as untimely because they were not filed prior to arraignment. The trial court…