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PARKS v. STATE

16997.

206 Ga. 675 (1950)

58 S.E.2d 142

PARKS, alias ALEXANDER, v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. G. Hicks and C. T. Culbert, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, John W. Davis, Solicitor-General, Frank B. Stow, Assistant Attorney-General, and Robert E. Andrews, contra.

HEAD, Justice.

"A person convicted of a capital offense is never sentenced under the law of this State but one time; the sentence is the conclusion of the record, and once entered, the record is complete. It may be that the time fixed in the sentence expires, but the sentence stands in full force. . . What is commonly referred to as a resentence is only the fixing of a new time for the execution of a sentence." Baughn v. State, 100 Ga. 554, 558 (28 S...

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