Roberts v. Wansley

1. A judge of the superior court of this State has no authority to suspend the execution of a sentence imposed by him in a criminal case, except as incidental to a review of the judgment under which the sentence was imposed. Wall v. Jones, 135 Ga. 425 (69 S. E. 548), and cases cited.(a) The statement of the judge in orally passing sentence upon the accused, where the written sentence imposed a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars and also imprisonment in the chain-gang for the term of twelve months, that so much of the written sentence which was subsequently entered upon the minutes of the…