State v. Varner

Clarke, Justice.

A special act of the legislature abolished the office of justice of the peace in the Marietta militia district of Cobb County, Georgia, and provided that no justice of the peace or notary public ex officio justice of the peace shall have or exercise any jurisdiction within the corporate limits of the City of Marietta, Georgia. Ga. L. 1964, pp. 3211, 3222. While physically present within the corporate limits of the City of Marietta, a JP from another district in Cobb County issued a search warrant to be executed in a Cobb County location outside of the City of Marietta and the…