Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0273-01.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

11113.
    Cox v. Perkins.
    Decided July 12, 1921.
    Action for damages; _ from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. October 27, 1919.
    
      McCallum & Sims, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Joseph A. Morris, George P. Whitman, contra.
   Luke, J.

1. “An affidavit taken before a deputy clerk of the municipal court of Atlanta, not in the presence of a judge of that court, will not furnish a sufficient, foundation for the issuance by a judge of the municipal court of Atlanta of a warrant to arrest an accused person.” Cox v. Perkins, 151 Ga. 632 (107 S. E. 863).

2. Under the above ruling by the Supreme Court, the trial court erred in overruling the first and second paragraphs of the demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition.

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.