Case ID: ga-app_14/html/0754-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

5661.
    McGovern v. Trammell.
    Decided July 7, 1914.
    Petition for certiorari; from Stewart superior court — Judge Littlejohn. April 4, 1914.
    
      T. T. James, for plaintiff in error. G. Y. Harrell, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

“In order for this court to review a refusal of a judge of the superior court to sanction a petition for certiorari, the petition must be incorporated in the bill of exceptions, or be verified as a part thereof by the trial judge; an unsanctioned petition can not be specified as a part of the record.” Taylor v. Town of Omega, 12 Ga. App. 693 (78 S. E. 144), and citations. A petition for certiorari does not become a part of the record, so as to be lawfully filed, until it is sanctioned. Elsas v. Clay, 67 Ga. 327; James v. Davis, 76 Ga. 100; Wilks v. Smith, 101 Ga. 229 (28 S. E. 630). The filing of an unsanctioned petition for certiorari not being authorized by law, an entry of filing upon such a petition does not so authenticate the paper as to dispense with the necessity for having the paper verified by the judge himself.

Writ of error dismissed.