Ball v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from a verdict of guilty but mentally ill at the time of the crime as to three felony counts of violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Defendant contends that the trial court erred in failing to fully charge the provisions of Code Ann. § 27-1503 (Ga. L. 1977, pp. 1293, 1295; 1982, pp. 1476, 1477, effective July 1, 1982) (now OCGA § 17-7-131, effective November 1,1982) in that the trial court having charged as to the verdict of “guilty but mentally ill at the time of the crime” should have also charged as to the verdict of “not guilty by…