Parker v. State

The Court of Appeals has certified to the Supreme Court the following questions for decision:

"1. Where the judge presiding in the trial of a criminal ease is related to the defendant within the fourth degree of consanguinity, and neither the defendant nor his counsel has knowledge, until after the trial, of the existence of such relationship, is the relationship a sufficient ground for a new trial?

“2. Is the ruling of this court in Olliff v. State, 1 Ga. App. 553, that the defendant in a criminal case may successfully urge, in a motion for a new trial, the disqualification of the presiding…