Smith v. Ricketts

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

This appeal is from an order resentencing the appellant in accordance with the decisions of this court in Wade v. State, 231 Ga. 131 (200 SE2d 271) and Gandy v. State, 232 Ga. 105 (205 SE2d 243). The trial court resentenced the appellant in his absence in accordance with the ruling made by this court in Johnson v. Caldwell, 232 Ga. 200 (5) (205 SE2d 857). The appellant contends that the entry of the sentence in his absence violated his rights to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. He contends that if he had been…