Brantley v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Brantley v. State

171 S.E.2d 657, 120 Ga. App. 599, 1969 Ga. App. LEXIS 872

CourtCourt of Appeals of Georgia

DecidedNovember 5, 1969

Docket44800

StatusPublished

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Brantley v. State, 171 S.E.2d 657, 120 Ga. App. 599, 1969 Ga. App. LEXIS 872 (Ga. Ct. App. 1969).

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Deen, Judge.

In answer to a certified question from this court the Supreme Court held in Studdard v. State, 225 Ga. 410 (169 SE2d 327) that to allow the jury to hear evidence of prior convictions of the accused for the purpose of imposing maximum sentence under Code Ann., § 26-2603 (C) without setting out such offenses in the indictment would be a travesty on justice, since in a maximum sentence situation the prior convictions are an element of the offense. Accordingly, the defendant’s enumeration of error attacking the submission to the jury of the separate issue of increased punishment, where the indictment included no allegation of prior conviction, is valid, and the judgment meting out the maximum sentence for larceny of an automobile must be

Reversed.

Bell, C. J., and Eberhardt, J., concur.

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Deen, Judge.

In answer to a certified question from this court the Supreme Court held in Studdard v. State, 225 Ga. 410 (169 SE2d 327) that to allow the jury to hear evidence of prior convictions of the accused for the purpose of imposing maximum sentence under Code Ann., § 26-2603 (C) without setting out such offenses in the indictment would be a travesty on justice, since in a maximum sentence situation the prior convictions are an element of the offense. Accordingly, the defendant’s enumeration of error attacking the submission to the jury of the separate issue of increased punishment, where the indictment included no allegation of prior conviction, is valid, and the judgment meting out the maximum sentence for larceny of an automobile must be

Reversed.

Bell, C. J., and Eberhardt, J., concur.

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171 S.E.2d 657, 120 Ga. App. 599, 1969 Ga. App. LEXIS 872, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/brantley-v-state-gactapp-1969.

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