Herrtngton v. The State Of Ga.
| Decision Date | 31 January 1875 |
| Citation | 53 Ga. 552 |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
| Parties | C. C. Herrtngton, plaintiff in error, v. The State of Georgia, defendant in error.* |
Criminal Law—Death of Defendant—Practice in Supreme Court.—
Where, after the argument of a criminal case in this court, but before the judgment is pronounced, the defendant dies, the proceedings abate, and no decision will be pronounced. (R.)
Criminal law. Practice in the Supreme Court. Before the Supreme Court. January Term, 1875.
The above head-note sufficiently reports this case.
W. F. Wright; Peeples & Howell, for plaintiff in error.
John T. Glenn, solicitor general, for the state.
*Injunction—Review.—A judgment sustaining a demurrer to a motion to dissolve an interlocutory injunction is not reviewable by a "fast" writ of error. Smith v. Willis, 107 Ga. 793, 33 S. E. Rep. 667, citing principal case. See also, Kaufman v. Ferst, 55 Ga. 353; Smith v. Willis, 105 Ga. 840, 32 S. E. Rep. 92; Hollinshead v. L-incolnton, 84 Ga. 591, 10 S. E. Rep. 1094.
See Ency. Dig. Ga. Rep., vol. 5, pp. 121, 122; lb., vol. 7, p. 506.
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