Laffitte v. Burke

In the case of Hardwick v. Burke, ante, 999, in which the officers of the superior court of Screven county were attempting to assert a hen upon certain fines which had been paid into the county treasury by the county judge of that county, interventions were filed by Laffitte and Burns, each setting up that he had been convicted in the county court of a violation of a special act for Screven county regulating the sale of liquor, and that such special act was “ unconstitutional, null and void, for the reason that said act is in conflict with the general law of 1877.” The intervenors prayed *1001that…