GREEN v. STATE

35453.

244 Ga. 755 (1979)

262 S.E.2d 68

GREEN v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Sewell Elliott, Jr., Brown, Katz, Dasher & Flateau, S. Phillip Brown, for appellant.

W. Donald Thompson, District Attorney, Willis B. Sparks, III, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Russell N. Sewell, Assistant Attorney General, amicus curiae.


HALL, Justice.

Green, convicted in 1979 of burglary after three prior felony convictions, was sentenced under the habitual offender statute, Code Ann. § 27-2511, to serve 20 years without parole. He seeks to bring his appeal to this court, urging as his single jurisdictional ground an argument that the cited Code section is unconstitutional because prohibiting parole of some sentences conflicts with the authority given the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in...

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