Kneeland v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in the Supreme Court. Indictment. Criminal law. Jurors. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta.
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Practice in the Supreme Court. Indictment. Criminal law. Jurors. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1879. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add the following: Counsel for the state insisted that the overruling of the first plea was purely a law point for the decision of the court, and was not a final adjudication ; that hence a motion for new trial was not the proper remedy, and the court was right in refusing to entertain it or to sign a bill of exceptions based thereon; that his refusal was no ground for a new…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
The defendants were indicted for the offence of misdemeanor and chaiged with keeping and employing a “faro table,” and presiding and dealing at the same for the purpose of playing and betting for money, or other thing of value. The defendants filed a special plea (which was sworn to) that three of the grand jurors who found the bill of indictment against them, were not legally qualified to act as grand jurors, their names not being in the grand jury box of said county of Fulton, nor on the list of grand and petit jurors prepared in accordance with the stat*643ute; that Wui.…
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