Butts v. State

Simmons, Justice.

The counsel who represented the State as solicitor-general pro tem. of the city court of Macon on the trial of the case in that court, acknowledged service of notice of the sanction of a writ of certiorari to the superior court, *451and of the time and place of hearing. The judge of the superior court dismissed the certiorari for want of service on the solicitor-general of the circuit.

We think the dismissal was proper. The statute requires that the notice shall be given “to the opposite party in interest, his agent or attorney,” etc. Code, §4059. The authority of the solicitor…