Opinion
39431.
DECIDED FEBRUARY 12, 1962.
Application for mandamus.
Charles Inman Belt, pro se.
"The Court of Appeals has no original jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus to a judge of the superior court to require him to perform any act except in aid of a party bringing the case to this court by writ of error and cannot, by such a writ, compel the trial court to take any step in a case pending in that court and in which no writ of error has been sued out or applied for." French v. Long, 97 Ga. App. 656 ( 104 S.E.2d 155). Accordingly, this court is without jurisdiction to grant the petition for a mandamus nisi, seeking to require the trial judge to sign a nisi directed to the Solicitor-General of Jenkins Superior Court, requiring the latter to show cause why a verdict, judgment and sentence against said petitioner is not illegal and void.
Application for mandamus nisi denied for lack of jurisdiction. Felton, C. J., and Bell, J., concur.