Wright v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

In the construction of statutes it is the duty of the court to look for the intention of the General Assembly, keeping in view, at all times, the old law, the evil and the remedy. Code, § 102-102(9). It is therefore the duty of the court to seek to determine the intention of the General Assembly in its passage of the act to provide for plea of nolo contendere (Ga. L. 1946, p. 142). This brings us to a consideration of the law existing prior to the passage of the nolo contendere statute. Prior thereto, in all cases where the defendant entered a plea of…