Foster v. Brown

Both the chief-deputy-sheriff amendment and the civil-service amendment to the constitution, proposed by the General Assembly (Ga. L. 1939, pp. 33 and 36 respectively), and subsequently adopted by the people, were permissive in character, and left to the will and discretion of the legislature the question whether legislation under authority of either or both would be enacted in pursuance thereof. Under the terms of the statute passed in pursuance of the chief-deputy-sheriff amendment, the tenure of such officer was necessarily fixed at the will of the sheriff as authorized by that…