Sampson v. Harris

1. The provision in1 section three of the act creating .the city court of Thomasviíle, approved August 18, 1905 (Acts 1905, p. 383), that “the judge of the superior court may send down from the superior court of said county all presentments and bills of indictment for misdemeanors to said city court for trial; said order to be entered in the minutes of both courts,” is a special enactment, and as such is violative of art. 2, sec. 4, par. 1, of the constitution (Civil Code, § 6391), which prohibits the enactment of a special law for which provision has been made by an existing general law;…