GA 17-9-2 - GA 17-9-2

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Section as amended applies to offenses committed on or after July 1, 1974. - This section, which authorized the jury to determine guilt or innocence and the judge to pass sentence, applied only to those defendants who allegedly committed criminal offenses on July 1, 1974, or thereafter. 1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U74-74, but see Henderson v. State, 134 Ga. App. 898 , 216 S.E.2d 696 (1975), overruled on other grounds, Moran v. State, 139 Ga. App. 274 , 228 S.E.2d 216 (1976). General verdict is to be returned in both felony and misdemeanor verdicts. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-412. <h4...