Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

81 Ga. 708

Crawford v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 22, 1888

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1888-12-22

Jury and jurors. Indictment. Abatement. Practice. Before Judge Adamson. City court of Carrollton. May term, 1888. Henry Crawford was tried on a special presentment, charging him with having sold liquors without license.

Relies on Carter v. State · Brinkley v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1888-12-22

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1952

6 state decisions

2018881890190019101920193019401950decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

¶1The misnomer of the grand juror was abandoned in the argument. The sole question that remains is, whether the jury-book, as made up, was so defective as to render the grand jury illegal. Two irregularities are alleged: (1) that the clerk himself did not write the names, but called them out and some other person wrote them down; and (2) that the book was certified and signed by the commissioners before the names were inserted therein. We think these were mere irregularities, and only show that ministerial duties directed by the statute were not correctly performed. Code, §3910 (a) et seq.; Carter vs. State, 56 Ga. 463; Brinkley vs. State, 54 Ga. 371. The court was right in deciding that the special presentment should not be quashed or abated for the causes alleged in the plea, as explained by the evidence.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

/81/ga/708 · .json · Public domain