Georgia Code
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-1-11. Effect of Repeal or Amendment of Criminal Law on Prosecution of Prior Violations

The repeal, repeal and reenactment, or amendment of any law of this state which prohibits any act or omission to act and which provides for any criminal penalty therefor, whether misdemeanor, misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature, or felony, shall not affect or abate the status as a crime of any such act or omission which occurred prior to the effective date of the Act repealing, repealing and reenacting, or amending such law, nor shall the prosecution of such crime be abated as a result of such repeal, repeal and reenactment, or amendment unless the General Assembly expressly declares otherwise in the Act repealing, repealing and reenacting, or amending such law.
History. Code 1981, § 16-1-11 , enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 260, § 1.
Editor’s notes.
The title of Ga. L. 1987, p. 260, declares the purpose of the Act which enacted this Code section is “to supersede and abolish the rule of common law stated by the Supreme Court of Georgia in the case of Robinson v. State, 256 Ga. 564 , 350 S.E.2d 464 (1986).

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