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188 Ga. 182

Goodwin v. MacNeill

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 9, 1939

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1939-05-09

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1956

4 federal appellate ·

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Decided 1939-05-09

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Duckworth, Justice.

¶1Where on conviction of a misdemeanor the accused was sentenced to serve' a prison term and to pay a fine, the prison term to be suspended on payment of the fine, and before an appeal had been entered, in order to obtain the release of her person, she paid the fine *183without deception or coercion, such payment was voluntary, and she could not, after the case had been reversed on appeal and had been nolprosed in the lower court, recover the amount of the fine. The court properly dismissed a petition for mandamus to enforce the repayment of the fine. Code, § 20-1007.

No. 12764.May 9, 1939.Rehearing denied June 17, 1939.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.G. G. Battle, for plaintiff.Waller G. Ilendrix, Hughes Spalding, W. S. Northcutt, and E. Harold Sheais, for defendants.
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