The increased sentence, however, applied only to crimes committed on or after July 1, 2007; therefore, the trial court erred in sentencing a defendant to 30 years for an attempted sodomy that occurred

Bryant v. State, 304 Ga. App. 755, 697 S.E.2d 860 (2010). Trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to 20 years to serve on the criminal attempt to commit robbery count because the maximum sentence the defendant could have received was 10 years as convicted of the offense of criminal attempt to commit a felony, not punishable by death or life imprisonment, could be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than one-half the maximum period of time for which the defendant could have been sentenced if the defendant had been convicted of the crime attempted; the maximum sentence for robbery was 20 years; and half that time was 10 years. Ranger v. State, 330 Ga. App. 578, 768 S.E.2d 768 (2015). Defendant properly sentenced for attempted murder rather than aggravated assault. — Defendant’s appeal from the defendant’s conviction of attempted murder, in which the defendant argued that the law was ambiguous about whether the defendant’s attempt to kill the defendant’s spouse was punishable as attempted murder or only as aggravated assault, was res judicata and barred the defendant’s petition for habeas corpus; contrary to the defendant’s argument, there was no change in the law because McNair v. State, 293 Ga. 282 (2013), applying the rule of lenity when there was ambiguity between two felony punishments, was dictated by the Supreme Court’s own precedents. Rollf v. Carter, 298 Ga. 557, 784 S.E.2d 341 (2016). Cited in Bearden v. State, 122 Ga. App. 25, 176 S.E.2d 243 (1970); Williams v. State, 123 Ga. App. 9, 179 S.E.2d 351 (1970); Witt v. State, 124 Ga. App. 535, 184 S.E.2d 517 (1971); Fullewellen v. State, 127 Ga. App. 568, 194 S.E.2d 275 (1972); Cowart v. State, 136 Ga. App. 528, 221 S.E.2d 649 (1975); Johnson v. Jackson, 140 Ga. App. 252, 230 S.E.2d 756 (1976); Farley v. State, 238 Ga. 181, 231 S.E.2d 761 (1977); Johnson v. State, 144 Ga. App. 568, 241 S.E.2d 458 (1978); Head v. Hopper, 241 Ga. 164, 243 S.E.2d 877 (1978); Dunbar v. State, 146 Ga. App. 136, 245 S.E.2d 486 (1978); Taylor v. Hopper, 596 F.2d 1284 (5th Cir. 1979); Gunter v. State, 155 Ga. App. 176, 270 S.E.2d 224 (1980); McKenzie v. State, 248 Ga. 294, 282 S.E.2d 95 (1981); Stillwell v. State, 161 Ga. App. 230, 288 S.E.2d 295 (1982); Morast v. Lance, 631 F. Supp. 474 (N.D. Ga. 1986); Ranson v. State, 198 Ga. App. 659, 402 S.E.2d 740; Daniel v. State, 200 Ga. App. 79, 406 S.E.2d 806 (1991); English v. State, 282 Ga. App. 552, 639 S.E.2d 551 (2006); Upton v. Johnson, 282 Ga. 600, 652 S.E.2d 516 (2007); Castaneira v. State, 321 Ga. App. 418, 740 S.E.2d 400 (2013).