Lowe v. State

From the language employed in section 1068 of the Penal Code of 1910 it must be presumed that the General Assembly used the words employed in their ordinary, every-day, common-sense meaning, and that in referring to the previous conviction they had no reference to convictions in States beyond the jurisdiction of Georgia and of the courts of their State. The courts of Georgia do not take judicial cognizance of the laws of these foreign jurisdictions, and therefore we can not attribute to our General Assembly an intention to give equal dignity to proof of a conviction in another jurisdiction to…