Porter v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Constitutional law. Criminal law. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1874. Porter was placed on trial for the offense of having, whilst a constable, received from a prisoner, then in arrest and under a warrant for retailing without license, $25 00, said sum being paid in consideration of his releasing said prisoner and stopping the prosecution.
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Constitutional law. Criminal law. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1874. Porter was placed on trial for the offense of having, whilst a constable, received from a prisoner, then in arrest and under a warrant for retailing without license, $25 00, said sum being paid in consideration of his releasing said prisoner and stopping the prosecution. The defendant pleaded that by act of the general assembly of the state of Georgia, approved February 25th, 1874, the superior court of Fulton county had no jurisdiction to try said case, because exclusive…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
Which of these two acts — the act giving to the city of Atlanta a new charter, or the act amending the act creating.the city court — is to be considered as modifying the other, in matters in which the provisions are inconsistent, we do not, in terms,'• decide. The act last signed was first passed by the votes of the members of both houses, though it was not sent *237to the governor, or signed by him, until after the other. ■ Idee the journal of the senate of 1874.
The question is a new one, and not without difficulty, though by the very terms of our constitution, it would seem • to be…
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