41 Ga. App. 655 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1930
The indictment in this case alleges that J. T. Duncan and G. T. McLarty, being officers of a bank, received money on general deposit in said bank, knowing that it was insolvent, which
In addition to the foregoing the following shows an allegation that the defendants received the money: “J. T. Duncan being then and there president of the Douglasville Banking Company, a chartered bank incorporated under the laws of Georgia, and G. T. Mc
In addition to the foregoing the following shows an allegation that the defendants received the money: “said J. T. Duncan and said G. T. McLarty (being such officers of said bank and having charge and control of said bank,) did receive in said bank money on general deposit as follows.” (Italics and parenthesis ours.)
While the grammatical construction and the punctuation of the indictment are not entirely correct, yet, eliminating a strained construction and applying a reasonable construction to the allegations of the indictment, it unquestionably sufficiently alleges that the defendants received the money. “It is a well settled rule in this State, that the language of an indictment is to be interpreted liberally in favor of the State” (Green v. State, 109 Ga. 536, 540, 35 S. E. 97); and where an indictment alleges the offense in the language of the statute, and in such manner as to put the accused on notice of the charge against them, and “so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may be easily understood by the jury,” grammatical errors will not vitiate it. See Ga. L. 1919, pp. 212, 219. As stated in Studstill v. State, 7 Ga. 2, 17, the provision of law contained in section 954 of the present Penal Code “was obviously intended to sweep away all technical exceptions to indictments; and such is the character of the one under discussion.”
The court did not err in overruling the demurrers to the indictment..
Judgment affirmed.