Ridley v. State

Ingram, Justice.

Defendant’s conviction, in the Superior Court of Butts County, under the provisions of Code Ann. § 77-361, 1 for possession of a deadly weapon while serving as an inmate of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, is here for review.

A number of enumerated trial errors are insisted upon in this appeal, but only two of them will be discussed in this opinion. The first contention we address is defendant’s argument that the statute under which he was convicted violates the "due process” clauses of both State and Federal Constitutions and denies him equal protection of…