Case Name: Jerry Philo, plaintiff in error, vs. The State of Georgia, defendant in error
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1875-07
Citations: 54 Ga. 697
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jerry Philo, plaintiff in error, vs. The State of Georgia, defendant in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 54
Pages: 697–698

Head Matter:
Jerry Philo, plaintiff in error, vs. The State of Georgia, defendant in error.
Where the clerk of the superior court fails to forward a bill of exceptions, after the expiration of the ten days allowed him for making out transcript of record, etc., until too late to reach the clerk’s office of this court by the return day of the next term, by reason of which said case is placed upon the docket of the second term, the writ of error will be dismissed. (R.)
Bill of exceptions. Practice before the Supreme Court. July Term, 1875.
Yason & Davis ; Gartrell & Stephens ; Z. Z. Odom, for plaintiff in error.
B. B. Bower, solicitor general, for the state.

Opinion:
When this ease was called, counsel for the state submitted a motion to dismiss the writ of error because it was, by law, returnable to the last term of this court. In support of the motion he relied upon the following facts:
The bill of exceptions was certified by the judge, in the usual'form, on January 19th, 1874. It was served and filed in office on the next day. It was certified by the clerk on February 23d, 1875, and reached the clerk's office of this court on the 25th of the same month.
In reply to this motion, one of the counsel for plaintiff in error, stated in his place, that at the last term of this court he discovered that this case had not been forwarded; that h¿ immediately saw the clerk and caused-him to send it on; that it reached this court before the call of the docket of the Albany circuit, to which it properly belonged, but after the commencement of the term; that he then moved the court to have the same entered upon the docket and tried, but this was refused ; that the case thus was placed upon the docket of the present term.
The motion was sustained and the writ of error dismissed.