Case ID: ga_72/html/0212-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DeGraffenreid vs. The State of Georgia.
    1. The conviction of the defendant in the mayor’s court, under a municipal ordinance, for disturbing the peace, will not protect the accused from a subsequent prosecution by the state for assault and battery, though the same transaction be involved in both cases. 59 Ga., 168.
    '2 The charge was not erroneous; it neither expressed nor intimated an opinion on the facts, but stated hypothetically that if certain facts were proved, they would constitute assault and battery.
    :3. The verdict was right.
    Judgment affirmed.
    September 18, 1883.
    Jackson, Chief Justice.