Curtis v. State

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

After the State and the defendants announced ready, issue had been joined and a jury stricken, the defendants made an oral motion to quash the indictment. “Where an indictment is not on its face so defective that a motion in arrest of judgment would lie, an objection to it must be in writing [citation]. An oral objection, being ineffective for its purpose, is the equivalent of none at all, and, if no other action be taken, a waiver results.” Sheppard v. State, 95 Ga. App. 507, 508 (3) (98 S. E. 2d 169). To the same effect see Gilmore v. State, 118 Ga. 299 (1) (45 S.…