Madison v. State

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Hubert Madison, Jr. was convicted of aggravated assault and burglary. He appeals to this Court enumerating as error the trial court’s denial of his constitutional challenge to the retrospective application to his trial of three provisions of the Criminal Justice Act of 2005, Ga. L. 2005, p. 20 (“the Act”). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. The evidence adduced at trial showed that appellant was seen carrying a flashlight in the victim’s neighborhood on the night of the crimes and that an intruder, whom the elderly victim later identified as appellant, broke…