Case Name: RODRIGUEZ v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 2014-12-18
Citations: 330 Ga. App. 495
Docket Number: A12A2397
Parties: RODRIGUEZ v. THE STATE.
Judges: Phipps, C. J., Barnes, P. J., Ellington, P. J., Doyle, P. J., Miller, Dillard, McFadden, Boggs, Ray, Branch and McMillian, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 330
Pages: 495–495

Head Matter:
A12A2397.
RODRIGUEZ v. THE STATE.
(767 SE2d 509)
Decided December 18, 2014.
Crawford & Boyle, Eric C. Crawford, for appellant.
Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Ayanna K. Sterling-Jones, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Opinion:
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
In Rodriguez v. State, 295 Ga. 362 (761 SE2d 19) (2014), the Supreme Court concluded that, because this Court was equally divided on the judgment, the case should have been immediately transferred to the Supreme Court pursuant to the Equal Division clause (Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. V, Par. V), and, therefore, the decision in Rodriguez v. State, 321 Ga. App. 619 (746 SE2d 366) (2013), should not have been rendered. The Supreme Court vacated this Court's decision in Rodriguez', decided the merits of the appeal as if the case had been properly transferred; and remanded the case to this Court with direction "that a remittitur issue to the trial court, affirming the judgment of the trial court, and accompanied by [the Supreme Court's] opinion." Rodriguez, 295 Ga. at 366, n. 6, 373.
Judgment affirmed.
Phipps, C. J., Barnes, P. J., Ellington, P. J., Doyle, P. J., Miller, Dillard, McFadden, Boggs, Ray, Branch and McMillian, JJ., concur.