Clark v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The demurrer attacks the statute (Ga. L. 1960, p. 142; Code Ann. § 26-3005) upon the grounds that it denies the equal protection and due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment (Code § 1-815). This case is a striking illustration of the one-sided appeals constantly-made to this Amendment. The heart of the Amendment — everything it seeks to protect — is found in its provision that there must be equal protection of the law and there must be no deprivation of “life, liberty or property” without due process of law. It places them all upon precisely the same level…