Case ID: ga-app_14/html/0109-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roan, J:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

5237.
    Copeland v. The State.
    Decided December 9, 1913.
    Indictment for misdemeanor; from Cobb superior court — Judge Patterson. September 11, 1913.
    
      Fred Morris, C. E. Roop, Griffith & Matthews, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Herbert Clay, solicitor-general, contra.
   Roan, J:

An indictment for a misdemeanor, returned at the March term of the court, 1913, which alleged that the offense was committed on December 5, 1910, was not relieved from the bar of the statute of limitations by the following allegations: “This indictment is drawn in lieu of Indictment No. 2326, which was found true at March term of court, 1912, and which was quashed on demurrer of the defendant’s counsel at the March term of court, 1913.” Renal Code, § 30; MeLane v. State, 4 Ga. 335.

The court erred in overruling the demurrer to the indictment.

Judgment reversed.