Case ID: ga_223/html/0434-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Undbrcoflbr, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

24147.
    STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT v. HICKS et al.
   Undbrcoflbr, Justice.

This case involves an amendment to the Appellate Practice Act dated March 30, 1967, and was transferred to this court by the Court of Appeals for the reason that “Our research of this problem leads to the conclusion that a constitutional question is raised by the attack on the amendment for lack of an enacting clause.” State Hwy. Dept. v. Hicks, 115 Ga. App. 703. After the case was transferred here, the invalidity of the amendment was decided in Joiner v. State, 223 Ga. 367, without considering the constitutional issue. Accordingly, it not appearing that this court has jurisdiction otherwise, the case is

Argued June 14,1967 —

Decided June 22, 1967.

George P. Dillard, Herbert 0. Edwards, Robert E. Mosley, for appellant.

E. H. Stanford, Zachary & Hunter, William E. Zachary, John C. Hunter, for appellee.

Returned to the Court of Appeals.

All the Justices concur.