Court Opinion

ID: 9616667
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:48:42.47128+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:59.998255
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Hall, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent for the same reasons stated in my dissent in Sims v. State, 234 Ga. 177.
This court has held that the right of counsel for an accused includes the right to effective counsel. Pitts v. Glass, 231 Ga. 638 (203 SE2d 515); McAuliffe v. Rutledge, 231 Ga. 1, 3 (200 SE2d 100). Under the mandate of this court in Sims, supra, the most effective counsel is one who plays fast and loose with the trial court. It is no longer the policy of this court that "A party can not during the trial ignore what he thinks to be an injustice, take his chance on a favorable verdict, and complain later.” Joyner v. State, 208 Ga. 435, 438 (67 SE2d 221).
The result in Sims, supra, and this case, tends to allow the criminal justice system to be held in contempt by the public.