Case ID: ga_116/html/0545-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bellinger v. The State.
    Argued October 22,
    Decided November 12, 1902.
    Accusation of beeping a lewd house. Before Judge Norwood. City court of Savannah. October 21, 1902.
    
      W. F. Slater and George W. Owens, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. W. Osborne, solicitor-general, contrá.
   Simmons, C. J.

1. In the absence of exceptions pendente lite, this court can not consider exceptions to rulings made more than five months before the hill of exceptions was sued out.

2. Rulings-made upon a demurrer to an accusation, and a motion to quash the . warrant which was the.foundation of the accusation, are not proper grounds of a motion for a new trial.

3. The sentence was not excessive; and if it were, this is not ground for a new trial. Burgamy v. State, 114 Ga. 852 (2); Sturkey v. State, 116 Ga. 526.

4. The evidence authorized the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., absent, and Candler, J., not presiding.