Welborne v. Donaldson

This court, during the present term, held that it had no jurisdiction to review by a writ of error a judgment of the criminal court of Atlanta, which was established by an act approved September 6, 1891. See Welborne v. State, 114 Ga. 793. The plaintiff in error in the present bill of exceptions, who had been convicted of a misdemeanor in that court, sought, after the rendition of the decision just mentioned, to obtain a discharge from custody upon a writ of habeas corpus. His application was de*564nied, and he excepted. It was based entirely upon the alleged unconstitutionality of the act above…