Case Name: Van Dyke v. Lowry, sheriff
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1935-01-18
Citations: 180 Ga. 121
Docket Number: No. 10338
Parties: Van Dyke v. Lowry, sheriff.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 180
Pages: 121–121

Head Matter:
Van Dyke v. Lowry, sheriff.
No. 10338.
January 18, 1935.
R. R. Jackson and Samuel D. Hewlett, for plaintiff.
John S. McClelland, solicitor, James T. Wright, John A. Boykin, solicitor-general, J. W. LeCraw, B. D. Murphy, and J. T. Goree, for defendant.

Opinion:
Russell, Chief Justice.
Under the act creating the criminal court of Atlanta (Ga. L. 1891, p. 937), one accused of crime may be tried upon an accusation preferred by the solicitor of such inferior judicatory, at the instance of a prosecutor. The accusation thus preferred, if demand for an indictment be waived, is in all respects a substitute for an indictment or presentment by a grand jury; and one who is thus charged is not entitled to an investigation before a justice of the peace or other committal court. • The court properly refused a mandamus to compel the sheriff to carry the accused before a magistrate for a preliminary investigation.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.