Massey v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

After pleading guilty to burglary, Massey was sentenced to serve a split sentence of twelve years, the first five years in confinement and the remaining seven years on probation. As a condition of probation, Massey was banished from the counties comprising the Southern Judicial Circuit. Massey contends that this banishment violates both the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Art. I, Sec. I, Par. XVII of the Georgia Constitution.

As Massey made no objection to the sentence in the trial court, neither of the constitutional issues he now raises was preserved…