Court Opinion

ID: 5581639
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 01:41:04.708927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:06.302212
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Beck, J.
J. S. Bush sued out a distress warrant against W. I. Geer, to which Geer interposed his counter-affidavit deposing that the sum distrained for was not due. The issue thus made came on for trial at the January term, 1916, of the superior court of Miller county. The defendant filed his objection to the trial of the case at that term of the court, and also filed his written challenge to the array of jurors impaneled and sworn. This objection and challenge were overruled, and he excepted He contends, that court was being held under an act to provide for the holding of four terms in each year of the superior court of Miller county, approved August 9, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 27); and that this act is unconstitutional, and the court could not be legally held under the provisions thereof. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled.
1. The defendant” contends that the act approved August 9, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 27), which provides for the holding of four terms in each year of the Miller superior court is a local act, and that it is invalid in so far as it conflicts with §.823 of the Penal Code, which provides for the drawing, at the close of the term of the superior court, of the names of those who are to serve as grand jurors at the next term. This contention is based, of course, upon the assumption that the act of the legislature just referred to is a local law. But it is not a local law. That question is foreclosed by the decision in the case of Burge v. Mangum, 134 Ga. 307 (67 S. E. 857).
2, 3. The rulings made in headnotes 2 and 3 need not be elaborated. Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.