Hawes v. State

In 1963 the legislature decided that offenders under the age of seventeen should not be executed for their offense. Ga. L. 1963, p. 122. The Act which established this law was passed for this purpose and no other, and in so doing the legislature established the policy of this state *338beyond question.

This bill was in two sections. Section 1 amended Code § 26-1005, which dealt only with murder.1 Section 2 amended Code § 27-2302, which at that time dealt with all other capital offenses.2 The reason for two sections was the existence of two Code sections dealing with capital offenses; no…