Varner v. State

Shulman, Presiding Judge.

Having been arrested and charged with several drug possession offenses, appellants filed a motion to suppress the evidence. A hearing was held to consider one ground of that motion, the authority of the justice of the peace who issued the search warrant to exercise such jurisdiction. It was stipulated at trial that the warrant was issued by a justice of the peace sitting within the corporate limits of the City of Marietta. Appellants contend that the Act which established the Civil and Criminal Court of Cobb County (now State Court of Cobb County) not only abolished…