Bland v. State

In Thompson v. State, 203 Ga. 416, in an opinion prepared for this court by the writer, concurred in by six Justices, with one Justice not participating, it was said in part that, where a question is propounded by a juror that involves the functions of a separate and distinct branch of the government, the jury should be told that such matters can not be the subject of any instruction by the court. I adhere to the rulings made in the Thompson case, supra, and I believe that the rulings there announced demand that the judgment in the present case be reversed. .

The trial judge in the order…