Jordan v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion, in Dougherty Superior Court. Decided by Judge Perkins, June Term, 1855. Jordan was indicted for voluntary manslaughter. At May Term, 1855, after the Juries were discharged, (the case not having been called in its order, because it ivas not reached,) he moved to place upon the minutes a demand for trial. The Court refused the motion, and this decision is assigned as error.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] By the XVIIIth sect, of the 14th division of the Penal Code, is enacted, that “any person against whom-a true bill of indictment is found, for an offence not affecting his or her ¡life, may demand a trial at the term when the indictment is .found, or at the next succeeding' term thereafter ; which dennand shall bo placed upon the minutes of the Court; and if .such person shall not be tried at the term when the demand is made, or at the next succeeding term thereafter: Provided, that at both terms, there were Juries empannelled and qualified…
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