238 Ga. 497 - Patrick v. State

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2016

18 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Per curiam.

¶1Appellant was convicted for having committed the crime of rape. He was sentenced to ten years, five years to be served and five years probated. He has appealed.

¶2We have reviewed the record and the transcript, and the judgment below is affirmed.

¶3Appellant’s counsel, Hudson John Myers, filed a notice of appeal. However, after the case was docketed in this court, Hudson John Myers failed to pursue the appeal by failing to file enumerated errors or a brief as required by the rules of this court.

¶4Accordingly, it is ordered that Hudson John Myers’ name be stricken from the role of attorneys authorized to practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia. See Bailey v. State, 139 Ga. App. 321 (228 SE2d 357) (1976) for similar action taken by the Georgia Court of Appeals.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Ingram, J., who dissents.Ingram, Justice,

¶6dissenting.

¶7I dissent for the reasons given in my dissenting opinion in Pettiford v. State, 235 Ga. 622, 623 (221 SE2d 43) (1975).