41 Ga. App. 834 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1930
1. The motion for a new trial alleges that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “A good deal of evidence has been allowed in this case as to the character of the defendants and which has been admitted for the purpose of illus
2. In special ground 2 of the motion for a new trial it is alleged that “the court erred in overruling defendant’s demurrer to said indictment, and sa3^s that the court should have sustained said demurrer on each and all of the grounds therein set forth.” “The overruling of a demurrer to an indictment can not properly be made a ground of a motion for a new trial.” Veal v. State, 116 Ga. 589 (42 S. E. 705). See Trammell v. Shirley, 38 Ga. App. 710, 713, rule g (145 S. E. 586); Hightower v. State, 40 Ga. App. 624 (150 S. E. 863).
3. Special ground 3 alleges that “the court erred in refusing to require the State to elect as upon which charge or transaction 'or offense it would stand.” In Lynes v. State, 46 Ga. 208, 210, Chief Justice Warner said: “In offenses inferior to felony the practice of quashing the indictment or calling upon the'prosecutor to elect upon which charge he will proceed does not exist.” See Sutton v.
4. There is ample evidence to support the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.