GA 16-1-5 - GA 16-1-5

General Consideration Editor's notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions decided under former Penal Code 1910, § 1010 and former Code 1933 are included in the annotations for this Code section. Doctrine of continuity is inapplicable in criminal cases. - Presumption of continuance, that a state of things proved to have once existed is presumed to have continued to exist until a change or some adequate cause of change appears, is not applicable to criminal cases because in criminal cases the presumption of innocence is inviolate. Sokolic v. State, 228 Ga. 788 , 187 S.E.2d 822 (1972). "Presumption of innocence" is not synonymous with "reasonable doubt of guilt." - The presumption refers to a substantive right, which is in the nature of evidence, and the phrase...