Gilbert v. State

Quillian, Judge.

Appeal was taken from a judgment revoking the defendant’s probation of a three-year sentence for theft by receiving stolen property. Held:

1. The first enumeration of error is that: "The trial court erred in its failure to sustain the appellant’s objection that he had not violated a criminal law of a governmental unit on the grounds that a city ordinance passed by the City Commission of the City of Albany is not a criminal law in the State of Georgia.”

Code Ann. § 27-2711 (Ga. L. 1956, pp. 27, 32; 1958, pp. 15, 23; 1965, pp. 413, 416) provides among the conditions and terms of…