16 Ga. App. 216 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1915
Wright, after expressly waiving indictment or presentment by a grand jury and lack of jurisdiction in the city court of Statesboro, was tried therein on an accusation preferred against him for the offense of blackmail. Upon the return of a verdict of guilty the defendant filed a motion in arrest of judgment, and attacked the jurisdiction of the court to try him for the offense of blackmail without an indictment or presentment of a grand jury first having been returned against him, even though he had expressly waived the same. The only question which presents itself,
Our peculiar statute in regard to blackmail was evidently based upon a controlling public policy designed to prevent troubles that might be bred by various neighborhood Raney Sniffles; but whatever the object, the mandate is plain. Judgment reversed.