Case Name: LYDE v. THE STATE
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1978-03-08
Citations: 241 Ga. 111
Docket Number: 33304
Parties: LYDE v. THE STATE.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 241
Pages: 111–112

Head Matter:
33304.
LYDE v. THE STATE.
Submitted February 17, 1978
Decided March 8, 1978
Rehearing denied March 28, 1978.

Opinion:
Hall, Justice.
Appellant is charged with murder, and his first trial ended in a mistrial on the motion of the state after jeopardy had attached. Prior to a second trial appellant filed a plea of former jeopardy, which was denied. This denial was certified for immediate review. The application to appeal was granted.
We need not reach appellant's claim that there was no manifest necessity for the declaration of a mistrial on the ground of testimony prejudicial to the state. The state points out that a mistrial was granted on at least two grounds, one of which was the fact that the trial judge had just learned that his brother was hospitalized because of a serious heart attack. Appellant's counsel stated that the defense had no objection to a mistrial granted because of this circumstance. Because the mistrial was granted with the consent of the defendant, he is barred from pleading former jeopardy and the motion was properly denied.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
Douglass & Young, Orion L. Douglass, Bennet, Gilbert, Gilbert, Whittle, Harrell & Gayner, John M. Gayner, for appellant.
Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Attorney, JohnP. Rivers, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, for appellee.