Ferry v. State

Jordan, Presiding Justice.

This court granted certiorari in the case of Ferry v. State, 151 Ga. App. 436 (260 SE2d 351) (1979) to consider the following issues: Does Code Ann. § 24-2623 apply to multi-judge circuits; and if it does not, what procedures for the selection of a successor-judge shall apply when, from any cause, a judge in a multi-judge circuit is disqualified?

Ralph Ferry, petitioner, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years by Judge E. T. Hendon of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit. At the hearing on the petitioner’s motion for new trial, the…