Meadows v. State

154 S.E. 188, 170 Ga. 802, 1930 Ga. LEXIS 243

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: July 18, 1930
• Docket: No. 7528
• Status: Published

Opinions

Hill, J.

“Hnder the constitutional amendment of 1916, defining the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of this State (Ga. L. 1916, p. 19, Park’s Code Supp. 1917, §§ 6502, 6506), the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to decide questions of law that involve application, in a general sense, of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the constitution to a given state of facts, and that do not involve construction of some constitutional provision directly in question and doubtful either under its own terms or under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State or of the United States, and that do not involve the constitutionality of any law of the State or of the United States, or any treaty.” Gulf Paving Co. v. Atlanta, 149 Ga. 114 (99 S. E. 374). Applying this principle to the facts of this ease, the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to decide the questions involved. The case is therefore Transferred to Court of Appeals. All the Justices concur, except