Court Opinion

ID: 9584481
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:48:47.399769+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:59.982084
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Hill, Presiding Justice,
concurring specially.
The defendant complains that Ga. L. 1978, p. 236, is unconstitutional as containing matter different from what is expressed in the title of that act, Code Ann. § 2-1304, in that the act deleted the word “aircraft” without reference to this deletion in the title. Yet this defendant was not charged with burglary of an aircraft (and if he had been he would be relying on the deletion rather than attacking it). I would hold that this defendant lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the deletion of the word “aircraft” under Code Ann. § 2-1304. We ought not grant every litigant a roving commission to review each act involved in a case, searching for some discrepancy between the title and text which does not affect the rights of the litigant. See State v. Raybon, 242 Ga. 858, 862 (252 SE2d 417) (1979). I therefore concur in the judgment as to Division 1.