Blalock v. Corpe

May 8, 1959

20449

Reporters:: , ,
Before:: Wyatt

Lead Opinion

Wyatt, Presiding Justice.

Notice of the escape from custody of the defendant having ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍been brought to this court by affidavit of the proper officer, and counsel for the defendant having admitted in this court that the defendant ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍has escaped from *62custody and is now at large, under the authority of many cases of this court, the writ of error must be dismissed. ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍See Gentry v. State, 91 Ga. 669 (17 S. E. 956), and Ramsey v. State, 212 Ga. 793 (96 S. E. 2d 250).

Submitted April 14, 1959 Decided May 8, 1959. Hugh J. Martin, for plaintiff in error. Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍Hamilton B. Stephens, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.

WHt of error dismissed.

All the Justices concur.

Concurrence Opinion

Duckworth, C. J.

I concur solely because I am bound by the decisions cited ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍in the opinions, which I think are unsound and should be overruled.