Beasley v. State

With respect to Division 2 of the Court’s opinion, I concur because the issue which appears to me to be crucial and which appellant attempts to present as part of his argument is not properly before us. He frames his enumeration of error by contending that the statute’s mandatory life sentence for second offenses violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. That is the same contention that he made in the trial court, which the majority quotes.

*351But there he did not state any grounds or explain why or how the statute’s mandate was constitutionally infirm. Nor…