Freeman v. City of Valdosta
Freeman v. City of Valdosta
Opinion of the Court
The defendant was convicted of violating an ordinance of the City of Valdosta regulating the operation of a business on Sunday or the Sabbath. In his application for certiorari he made certain constitutional attacks upon the ordinance. The judge of the superior court overruled the certiorari and the defendant appeals to this court. Held:
1. While, in the trial before the recorder, a reference was made
2. Under these circumstances, it is unnecessary to determine whether the ordinance is invalid upon application of City of Atlanta v. Hudgins, 193 Ga. 618 (19 SE2d 508), or is valid under the ruling in Karwisch v. Mayor &c. of Atlanta, 44 Ga. 204. See also McAuliffe v. Vaughan, 135 Ga. 852 (70 SE 322, 33 LRA (NS) 255, AC 1912A 290); Arnheiter v. State, 115 Ga. 572 (41 SE 989, 58 LRA 392); Reed v. State, 119 Ga. 562 (46 SE 837); Beard v. City of Atlanta,'91 Ga. App. 584 (86 SE2d 672); Giles v. Gibson, 208 Ga. 850 (69 SE2d 774).
3. There being no other grounds insisted upon in the brief of the appellant, the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
070rehearing
On Second Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant has made a second motion for rehearing and in this motion and in the first (which was denied), appellant most strenuously insists (1) that he made a proper constitutional attack on the statute at the first opportunity in his petition for certiorari to the superior court for the reason that the recorder’s court had no jurisdiction to pass upon the constitutionality of the statute; (2) that the recorder’s court and the superior court erred in refusing to pass on'the constitutionality of the statute; (3) that the recorder’s court erred in holding the statute constitutional.
There being no proper attack made in the recorder’s court, we
Nothing contained in Sec. 1, Par. (b) of the Appellate Practice Act of 1965' (Ga. L. 1965, p. 18; 'Code Ann. § 6-701) requires this court or any other court to pass upon a matter not properly presented for decision. We find nothing in the provision of the statute which supports appellant’s contention in this respect. The Court of Appeals, as constitutionally created, is a court alone for the trial and correction of such errors of law as shall appear from the record as made in the trial court. Nix v. State, 94 Ga. App. 141 (2) (93 SE2d 783); Republic of Cuba v. Arcade Bldg., 104 Ga. App. 848, 850 (123 SE2d 453); Rushing v. Akins, 210 Ga. 450 (4) (80 SE2d 813); Mitchell v. Arnall, 203 Ga. 384 (5) (47 SE2d 258); Stuckey v. Watkins, 112 Ga. 268 (2) (37 SE 401, 81 ASR 47); Blanch v. King, 202 Ga. 779, 782 (44 SE2d 779); Fry v. Shehee, 55 Ga. 208 (7). As was stated in Bryant v. Fidelity &c. Co., 114 Ga. App. 853 (1) (152 SE2d 759): “Nothing in the Appellate Practice Act of 1965 in any way alters this fundamental principle of appellate jurisdiction.” The same principle applies to the superior court upon petition for certiorari to an inferior court. Code § 19-101.
Movant insists that he made a proper attack at the first opportunity in the petition for certiorari to the superior court citing as authority Calhoun v. State Hwy. Dept., 223 Ga. 65, 68 (153 SE2d 418). In that case, the statute attacked was not passed by the legislature until after the case was in the Court of Appeals which had no jurisdiction to pass upon the constitutionality of a State statute. On application for certiorari to the Supreme Court, an attack was first made. The Supreme Court merely held that the attack was made at the first opportunity, which was correct under the facts. It was certainly not possible for the complaining party there to have attacked a statute prior to its passage. The courts will not require the impossible, but they will require a party to make a proper attack upon a statute or ordinance at the first opportunity an attack is possible.
Judgment adhered to.
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