Ellison v. State

1. “In this State the diSerence between an indictment and a'special presentment has been abolished, with respect to the requirements of law in regard to trials under them, a mere technical distinction remaining that in an .indictment the accusation is presented by a prosecutor, and in a special presentment it is preferred by the grand jury without a prosecutor. Groves v. State, 73 Ga. 205.” Barlow v. State, 127 Ga. 58, 60 (56 S. E. 131). “An indictment not signed by the solicitor-general is not subject to attack by the accused because not so signed. Sufficient authentication of a paper, as an…