STATE v. GRACE

S93A0689.

263 Ga. 220 (1993)

430 S.E.2d 583

THE STATE v. GRACE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 21, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Lamar Cole, District Attorney, Mark E. Mitchell, James E. Hardy, Assistant District Attorneys, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, for appellant.

May & Horkan, Dwight H. May, James F. Council, Jr., for appellee.

Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney from Toombs Circuit, Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney from Eastern Circuit, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Patrick Deering, Assistant Attorney General, Crumbley & Crumbley, Wade M. Crumbley, Groover & Childs, Denmark Groover, Jr., Cook & Palmour, Bobby Lee Cook, Barnes, Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, George T. Smith, Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton, Charles B. Haygood, Jr., C. Robert Melton, Joseph L. Chambers, amici curiae.


HUNT, Presiding Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court's grant of Allen Lee Grace's motion to quash the indictment.1 The issue presented is whether a grand jury, properly summoned, sworn, and charged by the trial court, and then dismissed, must thereafter be reconvened, resworn, and recharged by the court in order to conduct business during the same term of court. The trial court answered this question in the affirmative. We disagree...

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