Davis v. State

To the certified question based on assignment of error in the instant case propounded by this court to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court in Davis v. State, 192 Ga. 648 (16 S. E. 2d, 428), answered: “Where a defendant is convicted of crime, and is not sentenced during the current term, and the failure or omission to pass sentence is not at the request or consent of the defendant, but, in the absence of any order or entry, is due altogether to the inaction or oversight of the court, the court, during the succeeding term or terms, does not lose jurisdiction of the ease and the person of the…