Case ID: ga_129/html/0582-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "IPish, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

White v. City of Tifton.
    Submitted October 14,
    Decided November 16, 1907.
    Petition for injunction. Before Judge Mitchell. Tift superior court. September 7, 1907.
    
      Fulwood & Murray, for plaintiff.
    
      W. J. Wallace, for defendant.
   IPish, C. J.

The general rule is that a court of equity has no jurisdiction-to enjoin the institution of prosecutions for criminal offenses; and this rule is applicable to prosecutions for violations of municipal ordinances, which are quasi-criminal proceedings. Nor will a court of equity, upon a petition for an injunction of such a nature, inquire into the validity or reasonableness of an ordinance making penal an act for the doing of which prosecutions are threatened. Paulk v. Sycamore, 104 Ga. 24; Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Oakland City, ante, 576.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concu/r.