Smith v. State

Webb, Judge.

1. Ga. L. 1973, pp. 697, 700, provides that in prosecutions for abandonment of illegitimate children under Code § 74-9902, "the venue of the offense shall be in the county in which the child and the mother are domiciled at the time of the swearing out of the arrest warrant. . .” No effective date is specified in the Act of 1973; and since it was approved on April 13, 1973, it became effective on July 1,1973. Code Ann. §102-111.The instant warrant was sworn out on May 10, 1973, prior to the effective date of the Act, and the venue provisions quoted above are accordingly not…