Case Name: SMITH v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1963-01-22
Citations: 107 Ga. App. 243
Docket Number: 39844
Parties: SMITH v. THE STATE.
Judges: Frankum and Jordan, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 243–244

Head Matter:
39844.
SMITH v. THE STATE.
Decided January 22, 1963.

Opinion:
Nichols, Presiding Judge.
Where as here the trial judge's certificate to the bill of exceptions does not unqualifiedly approve it as being true but undertakes to enumerate the particulars in which he contends it is untrue, such certificate "is absolutely void, and, in legal potency and effect in the creation of a writ of error, amounts to no more than a refusal by the judge to affix his name to the certificate which constitutes a writ of error." Barker v. Peoples Loan &c. Co., 178 Ga. 464 (2) (173 SE 704). At most it is a certificate approving the bill of exceptions as true in part and untrue in part. See Youmans v. Consumers Financing Corp., 80 Ga. App. 676 (57 SE2d 238); Clyde v. State, 97 Ga. App. 493 (103 SE2d 448). Accordingly, the motion to dismiss the writ of error must be granted.
Writ of error dismissed.
Frankum and Jordan, JJ., concur.
Driving U. I. Hall City Court. Before Judge Blackshear. John N. Crudup, for plaintiff in error.
C. E. Smith, Jr., Solicitor, contra.