Court Opinion

ID: 9849061
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:34:08.443153+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:59.594073
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Undercofler, Justice,
dissenting. Code Ann. § 6-803 provides in part: "A notice of appeal shall be filed within 30 days after entry of the appealable decision or judgment complained of . . . but when a motion for new trial, or a *397motion in arrest of judgment, or a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict has been filed, the notice shall be filed within 30 days after the entry of the order granting, overruling, or otherwise finally disposing of the motion.” Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 21; 1966, pp. 493, 496; 1968, pp. 1072, 1077.
The dismissal of the motion for new trial in the trial court was such an order "otherwise finally disposing of the motion” from which an appeal could be taken. The notice of appeal specifically excepted to the ruling on the motion for new trial and the enumerations of error were on the general grounds of the motion for new trial. Under the ruling in Tiller v. State, 224 Ga. 645 (164 SE2d 137), this court has jurisdiction to consider these enumerations of error. The dismissal of the motion for new trial did not become the law of the case here where the notice of appeal is from such order so as to preclude a determination of the enumerations of error. See in this connection, McLendon v. State, 123 Ga. App. 290 (180 SE2d 567), and Denham v. Shellman Grain Elevator, Inc., 123 Ga. App. 569 (181 SE2d 894).
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Almand concurs in this dissent.