Case ID: ga-app_28/html/0713-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12891.
    JAMES v. THE STATE.
    
      “ Where one having a pistol concealed about his person in one county was legally arrested by an officer in that county and by the latter carried into another county, where the concealed weapon was discovered, the person thus having the concealed weapon and who was arrested and carried into another county could not be prosecuted and convicted in the latter county for the offense of carrying a concealed weapon.’" James v. State {this case), 153 Ga. 713 (112 S. E. 899).
    Decided July 11, 1922.
    Indictment for carrying concealed weapon; from Cobb superior court ■ — • Judge Blair. August 20, 1921.
    
      W. A. James, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John 8. Wood, solicitor-general, Bindley W. Gamp, contra.
   Luke, J.

The headnote to this case is the ruling made by the Supreme Court in answer to the following question certified by this court to that court: “Where a person is legally arrested by an officer in one county and carried by the officer into another county, can the arrested person be lawfully convicted in the latter county for carrying a concealed pistol in that county, when he had the pistol concealed on his person in the county where he was arrested, but the pistol was not discovered by the officer until the person had been taken into the other county P ”

Under the above ruling of the Supreme Court, the trial court . erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.