Mayor of Atlanta v. Williams
Decision Date | 22 October 1971 |
Docket Number | No. 1,46257,Nos. 46256,s. 46256,1 |
Citation | 124 Ga.App. 802,186 S.E.2d 480 |
Parties | MAYOR etc. OF ATLANTA et al. v. WILLIAMS. WILLIAMS v. MAYOR etc. OF ATLANTA et al |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Page 480
186 S.E.2d 480
124 Ga.App. 802
MAYOR etc. OF ATLANTA et al. v. WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS v. MAYOR etc. OF ATLANTA et al.
Nos. 46256, 46257.
Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 1.
Oct. 22, 1971.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 8, 1971.
Certiorari Denied Jan. 6, 1972.
Henry L. Bowden, John E. Dougherty, Atlanta, for appellants.
Beryl H. Weiner, Roy J. Leite, Jr., Attlanta, for appellee.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court
PANNELL, Judge.
This case is before this court on appeal by the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of Atlanta from a ruling by the judge of the superior court on certiorari sustaining the certiorari and remanding the case to the lower tribunal. This case was before this court in a prior appeal as a result of the overruling of a petition for certiorari in the Superior Court of Fulton County, and the overruling of the vertiorari was reversed by this court. Williams v. Mayor etc. of Atlanta, 118 Ga.App. 271, 163 S.E.2d 239. This case in both instances involves the conviction of a police officer on charges of violating certain police rules, which resulted in his dismissal. It appears without disputed from the allegations of, and the answer filed to, the petition for certiorari in the present appeal that when the case was here before and was reversed by this court, the judgment of this court was made the judgment of the superior court, but the superior court did not enter an order remanding the case to the lower tribunal. With this condition existing, the present case was tried by the lower bribunal which found the police officer guilty of the charges and again dismissed him. The main appeal to this court in the present case is by the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of the Atlanta from the order of the judge of the superior court sustaining the petition for certiorari on certain grounds. The police officer filed a cross appeal complaining among other things of the trial without remand, which complaint was overruled by the lower tribunal and the superior court. Held:
Since the present case 'did not originate in the superior court, when the remittitur in the former judgment of this court was versing the judgment of the trial court was filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court . . ., the judge of the superior court . . . should have remanded the case to the inferior judicatory after making the judgment of this court the judgment of the superior court . . . by virtue of the Code, § 19-501. Any retrial of this case after the judgment of the...
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