Jones v. State
Decision Date | 13 July 1940 |
Docket Number | 13256. |
Citation | 10 S.E.2d 394,190 Ga. 654 |
Parties | JONES v. STATE. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court.
1. A charge that a statute is unconstitutional because in violation of designated provisions of the constitution, which does not state wherein it violates any of such provisions, is too indefinite to invoke a ruling as to the constitutionality of such statute.
2. The record in the instant case not properly presenting for decision any question as to the constitutionality of a statute, and the case not being one which otherwise comes within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, it is transferred to the Court of Appeals.
Stevens & Stevens, of Thomson, for plaintiff in error.
W Imman Curry, Sol., of Augusta, for defendant in error.
By an accusation filed in the city court of Richmond County Mrs Alice C. Jones was charged with the offense of a misdemeanor, for that she did on February 28, 1939, in Richmond County, Georgia, The defendant filed a demurrer to the accusation, ground 5 of which was as follows:
The court overruled the demurrer, after which the case proceeded to trial and resulted in a verdict of guilty. The defendant's motion for a new trial was overruled, and she excepted. The writ of error was made returnable to the Court of Appeals, but was transferred by that court to this court. The transfer was apparently made upon the theory that the constitutionality of a statute...
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