Badger v. State
| Decision Date | 15 November 1922 |
| Docket Number | (No. 3226.) |
| Citation | 154 Ga. 443,114 S.E. 635 |
| Parties | BADGER. v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
(Syllabus by the Court.)
the General Assembly approved August 17, 1920 (Ga. L. 1920, p. 215), providing for the regulation of the small loan business. The constitutionality of the act was challenged in the trial court by demurrer to the accusation. The exception is to the overruling of the demurrer. Held, that the act is not unconstitutional as violative of any of the provisions hereinafter set forth of the state or the federal Constitution: (1) "Protection of person and property * * * shall be impartial and complete." Article 1, § 1, par. 2. (2) "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, except by due process of law." Article 1, § 1, par. 3. "Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Const. U. S. Amend. 14. § 1. (3) "The legislative, judicial, and executive powers shall forever remain separate and distinct, and no person discharging the duties of one shall at the same time exercise the functions of either of the others, except as herein provided." Article 1, § 1, par. 23. (4) "No person shall be compelled to give testimony tending in any manner to criminate himself." Article 1, § 1, par. 6. (5) "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, " etc. Const. U. S. Amend. 4. (6) "No person shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, " etc. Amend. 5. (7) "Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the state, and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law." Article 1, § 4, par. 1. (8) "No law or ordinance shall pass which refers to more than one subject-matter, or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof." Article 3, § 7, par. 8. (9) "No conviction shall work * * * forfeiture of estate." Article 1, § 2, par. 3. The constitutionality of the act in question is sustained by many decisions of courts of last resort wherein similar legal principles were involved, among which are the following: King v. State, 136 Ga. 709, 71 S. E. 1093; Cutsinger v. Atlanta, 142 Ga. 555, 83 S. E. 263, L. R. A. 1915B, 1097, Ann. Cas. 1916C, 280; Carroll v. Wright. 131 Ga. 728, 63 S. E. 260; Early County v. Baker County, 137 Ga. 120, 72 S. E. 905; People v. Stokes, 281 Ill. 159, 118 N. E. 87; Harbison v. Stamer, 281 Ill. 450, 118 N. E. 94; U. S. v. Distillery Co., Fed. Cas. No. 14966; Wessell v. Timberlake, 95 Ohio St. 21, 116 N. E. 43, Ann. Cas. 1918B, 402; Com. v. Puder, 261 Pa. 129, 104 Atl. 505; Julian v. State, 86 Tex. Cr. R. 63, 216 S. W. 873. See notes to Re Sohncke. 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 813; State v. Sherman, 27 L. R. A. (N. S.) 898.
Error from Superior Court, Fulton County; J. T. Pendleton, Judge.
H. S. Badger was convicted of an offense, and he brings error. Affirmed.
W. J. Laney and John P. Haunson, both of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
Jno. A. Boykin, Sol. G...
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