Legal Opinion

Shamblin v. Penn

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 18, 1918No. 979PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Habeas corpus. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. May 11/1918. Harris & Harris, for plaintiff. Denny & Wright, for defendant.

1Opinion of the CourtBise, C. J.

1. If a defendant be found guilty of more than one offense, and the imprisonment under one sentence is to commence $,t the expiration of the other, the sentences must so state; else the second punishment will be executed/concurrently, and the defendant will be discharged on the expiration of the longer term. Fortson v. Elbert County, 117 Ga. 149 (43 S. E. 492).(a) The same rule applies where two sentences are imposed upon a conviction of separate misdemeanors at the same term of the eoux-t, and ' the judge, under the act approved August 16, 1913 (Acts 1913, p. 112), so molds each of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Fortson v. Elbert CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1903

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Roberts v. LowrySupreme Court of Georgia · 1925
  2. Long v. StanleySupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
  3. Murphey v. LowrySupreme Court of Georgia · 1933
  4. Sullivan v. ClarkSupreme Court of Georgia · 1923
  5. Ford v. EllisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1936

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