GA 17-10-9 - GA 17-10-9

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Intent. - Before enactment of former Code 1933, § 27-2505 (see O.C.G.A. § 17-10-9 ), sentences did not begin to run until the defendant was actually delivered to the penitentiary or chain gang and no credit was received for the time which may have been previously spent by such defendant in jail. It was this evil which that section sought to remedy. Aldredge v. Potts, 187 Ga. 290 , 200 S.E. 113 (1938). Under a rational construction of former Code 1933, § 27-2505 (see O.C.G.A. § 17-10-9 ), the statute's sole purpose was to give a defendant credit for time involuntarily spent in jail after sentence. Goble v. Reese, 214 Ga. 697 , 107 S.E.2d 175 (1959). Credit for time served. - Defendant was entitled to credit for time already served, notwithstanding the trial court's statem...