Cooper v. State

• Court: Georgia Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: NICHOLS
• Citation: Cooper v. State, 177 S.E.2d 228, 226 Ga. 722 (Ga. 1970)
• Decision Date: 24 September 1970
• Docket Number: 25980,Nos. 25979,s. 25979
• Parties: Franklin D. COOPER v. The STATE. Janice Veal COOPER v. The STATE.

Page 228

177 S.E.2d 228

226 Ga. 722

Franklin D. COOPER v. The STATE.

Janice Veal COOPER v. The STATE.

Nos. 25979, 25980.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sept. 24, 1970.

Edward T. Hughes, Camilla, for appellants.

A. Wallace Cato, Dist. Atty., Bainbridge, for appellee.

Syllabus Opinion by the Court

NICHOLS, Justice.

The defendants were indicted for refusing to deliver revoked operators' licenses to the Department of Public Safety. Demurrers to such indictments were filed, overruled and the questions raised thereby certified for immediate review. The sole questions raised by such demurrers which could give this court jurisdiction of the appeals relate to attacks on sections of the annotated Code. Though referred to as attacks on Code sections, they must be deemed to refer to the annotated Code since no such sections appear in the official Code. Held:

'This court has repeatedly held that an attack upon a section of the annotated Code which has been incorporated in the Code since the adoption of the Code of 1933 is not an attack upon the constitutionality of any law.' Adams v. Ray, 215 Ga. 656, 660, 113 S.E.2d 100, 103. See also Widemon v. Burson, 224 Ga. 665, 164 S.E.2d 128, and citations. The sole question which would have placed jurisdiction of the appeals in this court, not having...