Johns v. State

DOYLE, Presiding Judge.

Brian Louis Johns, Jr., appeals from the trial court’s order denying his motion in autrefois convict and plea of former jeopardy. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

In addition to constitutional proscriptions of double jeopardy, the extent to which an accused may be prosecuted, convicted, and punished for multiple offenses arising from the same criminal conduct is limited even more strictly by the Georgia Criminal Code. Under OCGA § 16-1-7 (b), if *719several crimes [1] arising from the same conduct are [2] known to the proper prosecuting officer at the time of…