Legal Opinion

Sapp v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided January 28, 1920No. 11021PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Accusation of misdemeanor; from criminal court of Alma— Judge Boatright. July 18, 1919.

1Opinion of the CourtLuke, J.

Under the ruling in Griffin v. Sisson, 146 Ga. 661 (92 S. E. 278), a court, to be like the city court of Atlanta or Savannah, must not only be located at a county seat which has been incorporated as a city, but must have jurisdiction to try criminal cases below the grade of felony and civil jurisdiction over a portion or all of those classes of cases the jurisdiction of which is not by the constitution exclusively vested in some other court, with territorial jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases throughout the limits of the county, or jurisdiction in one class of cases limited to the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Griffin v. SissonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1917

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ferrell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982

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