Watkins v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Constitutional law. ' Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Hall. Eockdale Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1877. Watkins was indicted for carrying concealed weapons. On the trial, after the jury had been impaneled and the prisoner arraigned, and while the solicitor general was reading the indictment, it was discovered that two of the jurors had been members of the grand jury which found the bill.
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Criminal law. Constitutional law. ' Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Hall. Eockdale Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1877. Watkins was indicted for carrying concealed weapons. On the trial, after the jury had been impaneled and the prisoner arraigned, and while the solicitor general was reading the indictment, it was discovered that two of the jurors had been members of the grand jury which found the bill. The court thereupon discharged the entire jury and had another impaneled. There was a mistrial. At a subsequent term, defendant pleaded that he had already…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
The defendant was indicted for the offense of carrying upon his person a pistol concealed, and upon his trial therefor, was found guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein set forth, which was overruled, and the defendant excepted. The defendant .filed a plea that he had been put in jeopardy on a former trial for the same offense on the same indictment, and was therefore, entitled to an acquittal.
It appears from the evidence in the record, that at a former term of the court, at which a misti’ial was had in the case, a jury was selected for…
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