Meyers v. Whittle

1. The act of 1924 (Ga. L. 1924, p. 195) provides for the execution of persons sentenced to the punishment of death by electrocution. In section 7 of that act is the proviso: “this bill shall not affect any person now under indictment for murder.”

2. Where one was indicted for murder prior to the passage of the act of 1924, supra, and was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was the law of this State at the time of the passage of the act of 1924, and where the defendant filed a motion for new trial on various grounds, which was overruled, and he excepted and brought his ease by…