Dixon v. State

Pannell, Judge.

While the Act of 1955, approved March 8, 1955, amending Ch. 26-45 of the Code (Ga. L. 1955, p. 578), struck Code § 26-4507 relating to the crime of escape of misdemeanor convicts, and struck Code § 26-4509, relating to the crime of escape of felony convicts, and enacted a new Code § 26-4507, in lieu of the old, the new Code section relating to both, the offense with which the defendant is here charged was one of escape occurring prior to the Act of 1955, which offense, under the provisions of Code § 26-103 “shall be prosecuted and punished under the laws in force at the time of…