Turner v. State

Hall, Justice.

Turner appeals, arguing that his robbery conviction should be reversed because he was tried upon an indictment which did not specify the statutory provision he was accused of violating, and that subsequent to the effective date of Code Ann. § 26-601 (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1269) trial upon such an indictment is unconstitutional. The argument is that Code Ann. § 26-601 providing that "A crime is a violation of a statute of this State. . .” has the effect of rendering unconstitutional an older statute, Code § 27-701 (Cobb, 833) which describes the form an indictment must take but…