Legal Opinion

Grantham v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 26, 1979No. 35728PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Hall, Justice.

Certiorari is granted in this case (Grantham v. State, 151 Ga. App. 707 (1979)) to review an alternative holding that the petitioner’s attack on the constitutionality of a Georgia Code section was inadequate because it referred to the Code Annotated rather than to the official Code of 1933. The Court of Appeals cited Cooper v. State, 226 Ga. 722 (177 SE2d 228) (1970); Widemon v. Burson, 224 Ga. 665 (164 SE2d 128) (1968) and Cox v. Burson, 226 Ga. 13 (2) (172 SE2d 406) (1968).

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Christiansen v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
  2. Lambert v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
  3. Widemon v. BursonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1968
  4. Cox v. BursonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
  5. Edmonds v. City of AlbanySupreme Court of Georgia · 1978

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3Cited by16 opinions

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  3. Wiggins v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
  4. Woodward v. GrayCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2000
  5. World Harvest Church, Inc. v. Guideone Mutual InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2009

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