Wiggins v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Petition, for certiorari; from Wayne superior court — Judge Highsmith. October 25, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
1. The fact that the opprobrious epithet alleged to have been used by the defendant was in the plural number and applicable to others in addition to the person to whom it was alleged to have been directed was not a sufficient ground for quashing an indictment under section 387 of the Penal Code of 1910. Nor was the indictment otherwise defective.
2. Though section 749 of the Penal Code of 1895 (Park’s Annotated Code, vol. 6, § 790 (p) ) provides that in a county court “the trial and judgment shall be by the court, without a jury, in all criminal cases, where a jury trial is not demanded by the…
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