Hall v. State

Marshall, Judge.

Appellant Hall was indicted, tried and convicted of burglary in July, 1973. He was sentenced to serve five years imprisonment. The Supreme Court of this state granted Hall the right to pursue an out-of-time appeal. Hall v. Hopper, 234 Ga. 625, 632 (216 SE2d 839). Pursuant to that right, appellant has enumerated seven alleged errors. Held:

1. The first enumeration of error asserts that one of the grand jurors who returned the indictment against appellant was an elected public official, i.e., a city councilman, and was thereby incompetent to serve as a grand juror. It is…