Pappas v. Aldredge

Duckworth, Justice.

1. A condition stipulated in a pardon requiring the prisoner to pay a fine of $50, and fixing no time within which it must be done, and containing no requirement that the prisoner serve the sentence imposed until this condition is performed, is a condition precedent, and until it is satisfied the pardon is inoperative. Huff v. Aldredge, 192 Ga. 12 (14 S. E. 2d, 456). Where no time for fulfilment of the condition precedent is stipulated in the pardon, the law requires that it be satisfied within a reasonable time. 13 C. J. 684, § 776; 20 R. C. L. 569, § 58.

2. Though a…