Blalock v. Pillsbury
Supreme Court of Georgia
Costs. Officers. Courts. Criminal Law. Sumter County. County Courts. Before Judge Fort. Sumter County. At Chambers, January 23, 1886. Blalock, the solicitor of the county court of Sumter county, petitioned for a mandamus against the judge thereof, alleging, in brief, as follows: An indictment for assault and battery was transferred from the superior court to th.e count y court and came on for trial at the Novernber term, 1885. The solicitor general of the circuit appeared…
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Costs. Officers. Courts. Criminal Law. Sumter County. County Courts. Before Judge Fort. Sumter County. At Chambers, January 23, 1886. Blalock, the solicitor of the county court of Sumter county, petitioned for a mandamus against the judge thereof, alleging, in brief, as follows: An indictment for assault and battery was transferred from the superior court to th.e count y court and came on for trial at the Novernber term, 1885. The solicitor general of the circuit appeared and claimed the right to represent the state in the prosecution. The county solicitor objected and claimed this right for…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
-The- solicitor of the county court, who petitions for this mandamus, makes two questions which he desires to have decided. The first relates to the power of the solicitor general of the circuit to follow and control cases transferred from the superior to the county court, in the latter court; the second to the power of the judge of the county' court to refuse petitioner an order for insolvent costs in cases thus transferred. Upon the return of the answer to the mandamus nisi, the court refused to make it absolute, and to this judgment the petitioner excepted.
1. Whether the…
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