Case Name: Hogan v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1907-01-17
Citations: 127 Ga. 349
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hogan v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 349–349

Head Matter:
Hogan v. The State.
Submitted December 17, 1906.
Decided January 17, 1907.
Certiorari. Before Judge Lewis. Jones superior court. October 18, 1906.
Moore & Moore, for plaintiff in error.
Joseph E. Pottle, solicitor-general, contra.

Opinion:
Cobb, P. J.
1. "The filing of the affidavit provided for in the Penal Code, § 765, that the accused has not had a fair trial, and has been wrongfully and illegally convicted, is a condition precedent to the sanction, of a petition for certiorari from a judgment of conviction in a county court. A failure to comply with this statutory requirement is not cured by the sanctioning of the petition or by the answer of the county judge; and, because of a failure to file the statutory affidavit, the ease will be dismissed." Blassingame v. State, 125 Ga. 293; Grant v. State, 126 Ga. 588.
2. In the present case the affidavit of the applicant for the writ of certiorari being fatally defective in the above-indicated particulars, the judge of the superior court properly dismissed the certiorari, at the hearing, for this reason.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.