Case Name: Hughes vs. State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 55
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hughes vs. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 55–55

Head Matter:
Hughes vs. State.
Assault with Intent to Murder, prom Dooly. Criminal Law. Indictment. Motion in Arrest of Judgment. (Before Judge Kibbee.)
G. W. Busbee ; Gustin & Hall, for plaintiff in error.
C. C. Smith, Solicitor General, by Harrison & Peeples, for the Stat
[Hall, J., not presiding.]

Opinion:
Blandford J.
Where a defendant was tried on.a copy bill of indictment which had been established in lieu of the last original, after conviction, it furnished no ground for a motion to arrest the judgment that the established copy did not have upon it any indorsemeat of true bill or other finding by the grand jury. Such an exception went to the form of the indictment, and did not affect the real merits of the offense charged, and it should have been urged before trial. Code, §4629; 17 Ga., 497.
Judgment affirmed.