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7 Ga. App. 596

White v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 6, 1910

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1910-04-06

<p>Indictment for burglary; from Sumter superior court — Judge Littlejohn. January 5, 1910.</p>

Relies on Cooper v. State · 6 Ga. App. 804 - Sconyers v. State

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Decided 1910-04-06

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1997

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Hill, C. J.

¶11. A judgment overruling a demurrer to an indictment can not be made a ground for a new trial. Such a judgment must be excepted to directly, either pendente lite or in the bill of exceptions. Sconyers v. State, 6 Ga. App. 804 (65 S. E. 814).

¶22. Where one opens from the outside a bolted window of a dwelling house,' by lifting the latch, and thus enters the house, except as to his lower limbs, and is then detected and prevented from making further entrance, there is a sufficient “breaking and entering,” within the meaning of the statute defining burglary. Cooper v. State, 69 Ga. 761.

¶33. No error of law appears, and the evidence Supports the verdict.

¶4 Judgment ajirmed.

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