Section 16-1-2. Purposes of title

   The general purposes of this title are:

   (1) To forbid and prevent conduct which unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests;

   (2) To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence authorized upon conviction;

   (3) To define that which constitutes each crime; and

   (4) To prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the seriousness of crimes and which permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual criminals.

Code 1933, § 26-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.