Moore v. Roberson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Habeas corpus. Ordinary. Jurisdiction. County Matters. Before Judge Harris. Wayne County. At Chambers. April 3, 1879. Moore applied for the writ of habeas corpus requiring Roberson, the sheriff of Wayne county, to show cause why he should not surrender to petitioner the possession of certain minors, petitioner’s children.
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Habeas corpus. Ordinary. Jurisdiction. County Matters. Before Judge Harris. Wayne County. At Chambers. April 3, 1879. Moore applied for the writ of habeas corpus requiring Roberson, the sheriff of Wayne county, to show cause why he should not surrender to petitioner the possession of certain minors, petitioner’s children. The writ was issued and Roberson replied that he held the minors for the purpose of carrying out the judgment of the ordinary of said county on a proceeding by habeas corpus instituted by Mary A. Moore. To this answer the petitioner demurred, upon the ground that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
The first section of the sixth article of the constitution of 1877 reads thus : “ The judicial powers of the state shall be vested in a supreme court, superior courts, courts of ordinary, justices of the peace, commissioned notaries public, and such other courts as have been or may be established by law.” The sixth section of the same article is in these words: “ The powers of a court of ordinary, and of probate, shall be vested in an ordinary for each county, from whose decision there may be an appeal (or, by consent of parties, without a decision) to the superior court,…
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