Case ID: ga-app_35/html/0256-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

17141.
    FREEMAN v. THE STATE.
    It appearing that the bill of exceptions presents only a moot question, the writ of error is dismissed.
    Criminal Law, 17 O. J. p. 196, n. 31 New; p. 364, n. 35.
    Decided April 14, 1926.
    Petition for certiorari; from Fulton superior court—Judge Humphries. January 13, 1936.
    The petition for certiorari complains of the overruling of a plea in bar to an accusation in the criminal court of Atlanta, and the bill of exceptions complains of the refusal to sanction the certiorari.
    
      J. A. MoDuff, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Boy Dorsey, solicitor, John A. Boylcin, solicitor-general, J. W. LeQraw, contra.
   Luke, J.

A certificate attached to the record in this ease and sworn to by the deputy clerk of the criminal court of Atlanta, shows that the accusation which is the basis of the case “was nolprossed by Hon. Jesse M. Wood, judge of the criminal court of Atlanta, on February 8, 1936, as appears on the face of the said accusation, and as appears on the records of this court,” the criminal court of Atlanta. The accusation attached to the record before us is marked “Nolprossed February 8, 1926. Jesse M. Wood, Judge C. C. A.” This being true, any question that may be presented by the bill of exceptions is moot. “This court will in no case undertake to pass upon questions presented by a bill of exceptions, when it affirmatively appears that, even if the judgment of the court below were reverséd, the plaintiff in error would derive no benefit from the adjudication.” Davis v. Mayor &c. of Jasper, 119 Ga. 57 (1) (27 S. E. 762). Under this ruling and the facts as shown by the record, this court will not review the judgment of the superior court, refusing to sanction the certiorari. The motion to dismiss the writ of error is granted.

Writ of error dismissed.

Broyles, G. J., concurs. Bloodworth, J., not participating, on account of illness.