City Council of Augusta v. Garrison

Jenkins, Justice.

Where a bill of exceptions with its record invokes jurisdiction of this court on the sole ground that a constitutional question is involved, but “raises only a question as to the constitutionality of a municipal ordinance, . . the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to decide the question raised by the bill of exceptions.” Hicks v. Dublin, 183 Ga. 390 (188 S. E. 339), and cit. The former ruling in Forbes v. Savannah, 160 Ga. 701 (2) (128 S. E. 806), that a municipal ordinance not only “has the force of law,” “but is a law of this…