Legal Opinion
Simmons v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 9, 1980No. 36344PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Justice.
We granted certiorari in Simmons v. State, 154 Ga. App. 234 (267 SE2d 806) (1980), to determine the constitutionality of the burden shifting provisions of certain of our firearms laws, namely Code §§ 26-2906 and 26-2907 of the Criminal Code of 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1324), relating to machine guns, and section 6 of the Firearms and Weapons Act (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 983, 985; Code Ann. § 26-9915a), relating to silencers and other firing devices and weapons. Upon further consideration we find that the burden shifting provisions of those laws are not involved here and affirm.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Morrison v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- State v. MooreSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- Hammock v. ZantSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Blankenship v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
- State v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
- Wooten v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982
- Zant v. GaddisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
- State of Ga. v. HudsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
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