Docket number: 38042
DECIDED
WELTNER, Justice. - DECIDED
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Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur.

Supreme Court of Georgia - THE STATE v. STONAKER., 236 Ga. 1, 222 S.E.2.d 354
Supreme Court of Georgia - SCARBOROUGH v. THE STATE., 231 Ga. 7, 200 S.E.2.d 115 (1973)
Supreme Court of Georgia - LOFTIN v. THE STATE., 230 Ga. 92, 195 S.E.2.d 402
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Bee v. The State., 168 Ga. App. 75, 308 S.E.2d 420 (1983)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Johns v. The State., 181 Ga. App. 510, 352 S.E.2d 826 (1987)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Massengale v. The State., 164 Ga. App. 57, 296 S.E.2d 371 (1982)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Henson v. The State., 182 Ga. App. 617, 356 S.E.2d 556 (1987)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Brooks v. The State., 197 Ga. App. 194, 397 S.E.2d 622 (1990)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Stroeining v. The State., 226 Ga. App. 410, 486 S.E.2d 670 (1997)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Houck v. The State., 173 Ga. App. 388, 326 S.E.2d 567 (1985)
Supreme Court of Georgia - CONYERS v. THE STATE., 260 Ga. 506, 397 S.E.2.d 423
Supreme Court of Georgia - WATKINS v. THE STATE., 254 Ga. 267, 328 S.E.2.d 537 (1985)
Tinsley & Emerson, William C. Tinsley II for appellant.
Albert C. McCord was convicted by a jury of the offense of child molestation and sentenced to the penitentiary. He appeals to this court, challenging the constitutionality of Code Ann. 26-2019, and setting forth other enumerations of error.The statute in question provides: "A person commits child molestation when he does any immoral or indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 14 years with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the person." Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1302; Code Ann. 26-2019. McCord contends that the term "any immoral or indecent act" is so vague and indefinite that it fails to give to a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of forbidden conduct.We disagree. "It is a general principle of statutory law that a statute must be definite and certain in its provisions to be valid, and when it is so vague and indefinite that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, it violates the first essential of due process of law. Hayes v. State,Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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