Giles v. State

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212 Ga. 465 (1956)

93 S.E.2d 739

GILES v. THE STATE.

19379.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Argued June 12, 1956.

Decided July 9, 1956.

Victor Davidson, Ed Rozier, for plaintiff in error.

George D. Lawrence, Solicitor-General, contra.

*466 HEAD, Justice.

A decision on the questions made in this case requires only the "application, in a general sense, of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the Constitution to a given state of facts, . . ." Gulf Paving Co. v. City of Atlanta, 149 Ga. 114 (1) (99 S. E. 374). The Court of Appeals, and not this court, has jurisdiction of the writ of error. Wynn v. State, 178 Ga. 193 (172 S. E. 565); Turner v. State, 185 Ga. 432 (195 S. E. 431); Sanders v. State, 186 Ga. 335 (197 S. E. 801); Baker v. State, 198 Ga. 291 (31 S. E. 2d 397); Byrd v. State, 199 Ga. 232 (33 S. E. 2d 693); Rowland v. State, 199 Ga. 340 (34 S. E. 2d 577); Robinson v. State, 209 Ga. 48, 49 (2) (70 S. E. 2d 514).

Transferred to the Court of Appeals. All the Justices concur.

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