Green v. Green

Nichols, Justice.

This is an appeal from a denial of relief upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On direct appeal his conviction was affirmed. Green v. State, 124 Ga. App. 469 (184 SE2d 194). The present complaint contends that the conviction should be set aside inasmuch as he was tried after the effective date of the Act of1970 providing for bifurcated trials (Ga. L. 1970, pp. 949, 950; Code Ann. § 27-2534), and relies upon the decision of this court in Todd v. State, 228 Ga. 746 (187 SE2d 831).

The trial court found that the prisoner was represented by employed counsel on the trial…