Gates v. State

The court judicially knows that the superior court of Fulton County embraces Fulton County only. The instant case shows that the trial was conducted at the county site in the courthouse in Fulton County, and that “downstairs” from the floor on which the defendant was mating his statement was in Fulton County, Georgia. The grand jury is but an arm of the superior court of Fulton County, which sits within the county. See Code, §§ 24-2609, 24-3001, 24-3003. In Womble v. State, 107 Ga. 666 (33 S. E. 630), it was said: “When all of the evidence introduced on the trial of a criminal case strongly…