Sylvester Scott Taylor v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
• Decided: June 19, 2019
• Docket: A19A2135
• Status: Published

Opinion

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia

ATLANTA,____________________ June 11, 2019

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A19A2135. SYLVESTER SCOTT TAYLOR v. THE STATE.

Sylvester Scott Taylor was indicted for murder, felony murder, and other crimes. The trial court found him in contempt for using profanity and raising his voice during a pretrial appearance, and Taylor appealed to this Court. If the underlying action is a murder case, the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the appeal, “regardless of whether the order being appealed is based on facts having some bearing on the underlying criminal trial.” State v. Murray, 286 Ga. 258, 259 (1) (687 SE2d 790) (2009); see Neal v. State, 290 Ga. 563, 572 (722 SE2d 765) (2012) (Hunstein, J., concurring); State v. Thornton, 253 Ga. 524, 524 (1) (322 SE2d 711) (1984) (directing this Court to transfer “all cases in which either a sentence of death or of life imprisonment has been imposed upon conviction of murder, and all pre-conviction appeals in murder cases”). Accordingly, this appeal is hereby TRANSFERRED to the Supreme Court for disposition.

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________ 06/11/2019 I certi fy that the above is a true extract from the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Witness my si gnature and the seal of said court hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

, Clerk.