Johnson v. State

The Act of Aug. 18, 1919 (Ga. Laws 1919, p. 387), provides "that the jury in their verdict, on the trial of all cases of felony not punishable by life imprisonment, shall prescribe a rúinimum and a maximum term, which shall be within the minimum and maximum prescribed by law as the punishment for said crime. Under this law, can the jury fix the same term of imprisonment as the minimum and maximum term? The statute does not declare that the minimum and maximum terms shall be different. All the statute requires is that the jury "shall prescribe a minimum and maximum term, which shall be within…