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Huguley v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia
Mar 20, 1969
225 Ga. 191 (Ga. 1969)

Opinion

25084.

ARGUED MARCH 10, 1969.

DECIDED MARCH 20, 1969.

Lewdness and public indecency. DeKalb Civil and Criminal Court. Before Judge Smith.

Peter E. Rindskopf, Howard Moore, Jr., for appellant.

John R. Thompson, Solicitor, William B. Morgan, for appellee.


The defendant was tried and convicted under an accusation charging him with open lewdness and public indecency ( Code § 26-6101). An attack upon the constitutionality of such Code section was overruled and such judgment enumerated as error as were other judgments and rulings of the trial court. Held:

1. It is well settled that when the constitutionality of a statute has been finally and conclusively determined by decisions of this court such questions cannot again be urged so as to invoke the jurisdiction of this court in a case where the jurisdiction of the subject matter of the appeal is otherwise properly in the Court of Appeals. See Morgan County v. Craig, 213 Ga. 742 ( 101 S.E.2d 714); Continental Cas. Co. v. Bump, 218 Ga. 187, 190 ( 126 S.E.2d 783).

2. In Fowler v. State, 189 Ga. 733 ( 8 S.E.2d 77), the Code section attacked in the present case was held to be constitutional as against the same attack here made, and the remaining enumerations of error require merely the application of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the Constitution to a given state of facts. See Woods v. State, 223 Ga. 754 (2) ( 158 S.E.2d 395), and citations. The Court of Appeals and not this court has jurisdiction of the appeal.

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

ARGUED MARCH 10, 1969 — DECIDED MARCH 20, 1969.


Summaries of

Huguley v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia
Mar 20, 1969
225 Ga. 191 (Ga. 1969)
Case details for

Huguley v. State

Case Details

Full title:HUGULEY v. THE STATE

Court:Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: Mar 20, 1969

Citations

225 Ga. 191 (Ga. 1969)
167 S.E.2d 152

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