Court Opinion

ID: 9569946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:18:48.385783+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:04:20.476595
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Hill, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment. My purpose in voting to grant certiorari in this case was to point out that the old rule (decisions of this court in conflict with older unanimous full bench decisions must yield to the older decisions) is not only old; it is no longer the rule. Hall v. Hopper, 234 Ga. 625 (3) (216 SE2d 839) (1975).
The law changes from time to time. When it changes, the more recent decisions of this court express the rules to be applied. Therefore, older decisions yield to the more recent ones. The majority acknowledges this proposition when it overrules Whiddon v. State, 160 Ga. App. 777 (287 SE2d 114) (1982), which relied upon Revel v. State, 26 Ga. 275 (1858).