Swift v. Van Dyke

Lumpkin, Justice.

Whenever the General Assembly expressly undertakes to amend or repeal an existing statute or section of the code, it must comply with the provisions of par. 17, sec. 7, art. 3, of the constitution, which declares that “no- law, or section of the code, shall be amended or repealed by mere reference to its title, or to the number of the section of the code) but the amending or repealing act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed, as well as the alteration to be made.” Oode, §5076. It by no means follows, however, that it is not within the constitutional…