Davis v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellants, Marvin Davis, Mike Paulk, and Bobby Fortner, appeal their convictions of failure to pay for agricultural products in violation of former Code Ann. § 5-9914. The alleged criminal conduct occurred on July 30, 1981. On November 1, 1982, the effective date of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, former Code Ann. § 5-9914 *894was repealed. See OCGA § 1-1-10 (a) (1). Originally, no similar offense appeared in the new code; however, at the following session of the Legislature, the language of the former code section was re-enacted verbatim as OCGA § 16-9-58 (Ga.…