Court Opinion

ID: 9616587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:47:58.915517+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:58.938267
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Hall, Justice,
dissenting to Division 2 and the judgment of reversal.
After the jury was excused from the courtroom to begin their deliberations, the able trial judge asked counsel for the defendant and the state if there were any "exceptions, objections, omissions, corrections.” Counsel *469for the defendant made two objections but did not object to the charge on the felony murder rule. In my opinion, there was a waiver on the part of the defendant by failing to object to the charge. See my dissenting opinions in Sims v. State, 234 Ga. 177, and Gaither v. State, 234 Ga. 465.
To me it is ludicrous to hold that an accused lay person can personally waive his fundamental constitutional rights to counsel and self-incrimination and yet not waive any objection to a charge even where he is represented by effective counsel.