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Jimmy Herman Jones was convicted on five counts of burglary. He was sentenced by the trial court to 20 years on Count 1; 18 years on Count 2, to run consecutively to Count 1; and 20 years on each of the remaining counts, to run concurrently. On appeal he contends that his sentence is void because the judge did not have authority to sentence him to consecutive sentences. This Court has already affirmed Jones’s conviction in an unreported decision, but we have jurisdiction of this appeal of the denial of Jones’s motion attacking his sentence on the ground that it is void. See Williams v. State, 271 Ga. 686, 688-689 523 SE2d 857 1999.

Nevertheless, we find Jones’s appeal to be without merit. Jones relies on Gandy v. State, 232 Ga. 105, 105-106 205 SE2d 243 1974, in which it was held that “a trial judge does not have legal authority to say whether sentences imposed by a jury in a multi-count indictment shall run concurrently or consecutively. Under our present statutes that function is solely within the province of the jury, because the jury fixes the ‘total punishment’ for a person convicted on one or more counts of a multi- count indictment.”

 
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