Johnson v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of public drunkenness and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

1. The charge of obstructing a law enforcement officer was predicated upon appellant’s resistance to being arrested for disorderly conduct. Subsequent to appellant’s arrest, the disorderly conduct statute was declared unconstitutional. Satterfield v. State, 260 Ga. 427 (395 SE2d 816) (1990). At trial, appellant urged that he had had the legal right…