60 Ga. 601 | Ga. | 1878
The defendant was indicted for the offense of carrying upon his person a pistol concealed, and upon his trial therefor, was found guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein set forth, which was overruled, and the defendant excepted. The defendant .filed a plea that he had been put in jeopardy on a former trial for the same offense on the same indictment, and was therefore, entitled to an acquittal.
It appears from the evidence in the record, that at a former term of the court, at which a misti’ial was had in the case, a jury was selected for the trial of the defendant, but whether sworn or not the evidence is conflicting; that the defendant had been arraigned, and the solicitor general was reading the indictment to the jury when it was discovered that two of the jurors had been on the grand jury that found the bill of indictment against the defendant; that the court discharged that jury, and impaneled another jury over defendant’s objections. This was done before any evidence had been submitted to the jury by the prosecuting officer for the state. It does not appear that the disqualification of the jurors was known to either party until the indictment was being read, as before stated.
Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.