Durden v. State

1. An indictment was returned by the grand jury of Emanuel county charging Jack Durden with being drunk on the public highway. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the accused made a motion for a new trial, based on the general grounds only. Pending the motion for a new trial the defendant filed a motion to set aside the judgment, on the ground that “the city court of Swainsboro has never had jurisdiction of the case, for the reason that said bill of indictment was a superior-court indictment, and the superior court of Emanuel county only had jurisdiction over same.” It is insisted…