Court Opinion

ID: 9574988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:10:31.055793+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:47:44.973575
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Hill, Justice,
concurring specially.
Appellant urges that the General Assembly could not have intended that a person commits the crime of felony-murder when he causes the death of another, irrespective of malice, in the commission of any felony. Appellant points out that voluntary manslaughter is a felony (Code Ann. § 26-1102) and that the General Assembly could not have intended that a person who causes the death of another, irrespective of malice, while in the commission of voluntary manslaughter, would be guilty of felony murder. See Perkins, Criminal Law, p. 36 (1957).
The state responds by saying: "Clearly, the legislature did not intend that voluntary manslaughter, as defined in Chapter 26-1101 of the Georgia Criminal Code, should be considered a 'felony’ under the felony murder provision.” The state goes on, however, to urge that the felony here involved (aggravated assault) is a felony which will support an indictment for felony murder.
Because the case now before us does not raise the questions which would have to be resolved if voluntary manslaughter were involved, I concur in the judgment of the court.