Legal Opinion

Anderson v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 21, 1977No. 53762Published

1Opinion of the Court

Marshall, Judge.

The appellants were tried concurrently by accusation before a jury for two counts of simple battery. Each appellant was convicted as charged and sentenced to serve a year on one count and a year’s probation on the second count to follow the first sentence. Each appellant raises the same four enumerations of error; namely, that they were denied due process of law by being forced to submit to trial in the Criminal Court of Fulton County upon misdemeanor offenses before a five-man jury, a constitutionally defective number (Enumerations 1 and 2); that the trial court refused to…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Williams v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Ridley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
  3. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1962
  4. Ethridge v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1926
  5. Battle v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975

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