Flynt v. Dumas
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
1. Special ground one of the amended motion for new trial seeks to attack the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly (Ga. L. 1941, p. 487, Code, Ann. Supp., § 67-1308). The constitutional attack is made for the first time in the motion for new trial. "A question as to the constitutionality of a law cannot be raised for the first time in a motion for a new trial, where it was not made either by demurrer to the pleadings or by objections to evidence, or in some other appropriate way pending the trial." Stone v. State, 202 Ga. 203 (42 S.E.2d 727). Moreover, if such an attack were…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ewing v. TannerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1937
- Price v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
- Wight & Weslosky v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
- Stone v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
- Ponder v. WalkerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
3Cited by2 opinions
- Wright v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Corbin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1956