Sims v. State

In Sims v. State, 37 Ga. App. 819. (142 S. E. 464), the conviction was set aside because the trial judge erred in denying a motion in arrest of judgment, based upon the failure of the indictment to allege an intent to defraud. Omitting its formal parts, the indictment in the present case, based upon the same transaction and drawn under the same section of the Penal Code of 1910, to wit, § 249, charges, E. S. Sims with affelony “for that said accused, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, on the 7th day of April, 1927, . . did designedly, by color of the following counterfeit check and…