Lunsford v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Grice, Justice.
A question of constitutional law, not raised in the trial of an accusation in the criminal court of Fulton Count}', but first made in a petition for certiorari to the superior court after verdict -in the trial court, is not properly presented for decision. Mays v. State, 175 Ga. 260 (165 S. E. 68).
Under the amendment of art. 6, sec. 2, par. 5, of the constitution (Code, § 2-3005), defining the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, which places jurisdiction in the Supreme Court of “all cases that involve the construction of the constitution of the State of…
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