Davis v. Davison, (No. 4869.)
Decision Date | 20 June 1925 |
Docket Number | (No. 4869.) |
Citation | 160 Ga. 545,128 S.E. 743 |
Parties | DAVIS. v. DAVISON et al., Prison Com'rs. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Error from Superior Court, Fulton County; G. H. Howard, Judge.
Application for habeas corpus by Marion Davis against R. E. Davison and others, Prison Commissioners. Petition denied, and applicant brings error. Judgment denying writ affirmed.
Wm. G. McRae and Geo. G. Finch, both of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
C. C. Smith and T. E. Patterson, both of Atlanta, for defendants in error.
Upon hearing, the court denied the prayers of the petition.
We will not take up the history of section 378 of the Penal Code, making seduction a felony, and decide whether or not seduction was a crime under the laws of Georgia prior to the Code of 1863; but this law was embodied in the Code of 1SG3, and all subsequent Codes. It has also received specific legislative recognition by the act of 1893. which amends the section, and sets it out in full as amended as a statute of the state of Georgia. Ga. Laws 1893, p. 39. In adopting the Code as the law of Georgia, the Legislature enacted into law the various sections therein contained which: "could be consti tutionally enacted by the Legislature." That has been declared in more than one decision by this court; among them, the decision in the case of Central Ry. Co. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S. E. 531, 42 L. R. A. 518. We have been asked to review and reverse that decision, but upon review the decision is adhered to. And, without going into other authorities, that case settles the controlling question here adversely to the...
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