Case ID: ga-app_28/html/0624-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

13375.
    Carswell v. The State.
   Luke, J.

A direct bill of exceptions will not lie to a judgment overruling a plea in abatement in a criminal case. This is true although the necessary effect of a judgment sustaining the plea would be to entitle the defendant to a judgment dismissing the prosecution. See, in this connection, English v. Rosenkrantz, 150 Ga. 745 (105 S. E. 292), and citations; Bashinski v. State, 123 Ga. 508 (2), 510 (51 S. E. 499). The writ of error in this case must be

Decided June 13, 1922.

Conviction of stabbing; from city court of Americus — Judge Harper. February 1, 1922.

J. A. Hixon, for plaintiff in error.

T. O. Marshall, solicitor pro tern., Shipp & Sheppard, contra.

Dismissed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.