ATLANTA NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. GRIMES

20529.

215 Ga. 324 (1959)

110 S.E.2d 343

ATLANTA NEWSPAPERS, INC., et al. v. GRIMES, Sheriff, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. P. Gambrell, Stephens, Fortson, Bentley & Griffin, John E. Dougherty, for plaintiffs in error.

Harold Sheats, Griffin Patrick, contra.


HAWKINS, Justice.

Beginning with the decision in Gulf Paving Co. v. City of Atlanta, 149 Ga. 114 (99 S. E. 374), this court has held that, where the question presented for decision requires only an application of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the State or Federal Constitution to a given state of facts, jurisdiction of such cases is in the Court of Appeals, and not in this court, and has therefore transferred such cases to the Court of Appeals...

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