Legal Opinion

Flynt v. Dumas

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 13, 1949No. 16720Published

1Opinion of the Court

Wyatt, Justice.

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. *703203 (42 S. E. 2d, 727). Moreover,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Ewing v. TannerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1937
  2. Price v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
  3. Wight & Weslosky v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  4. Stone v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
  5. Ponder v. WalkerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899

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