153 Ga. 661 | Ga. | 1922
The decision in this case is controlled by the case of Wall v. Morris, 149 Ga. 632 (101 S. E. 683). The only issue, as shown by the statement which precedes the opinion, is whether fines and forfeitures paid into court since the act approved August 19th, 1918, which abolished the fee system as compensation for office of solicitor-general of the superior courts of the Stone Mountain Circuit, are subject to the judgment liens of the petitioner, who was a former solicitor-general. In the case above mentioned Presiding Justiee Beck, speaking for the court, said: “ While it is true that for his insolvent costs the solicitor-general had the judgment provided in the law and in a certain sense a lien upon fines and forfeitures which were to be paid subsequently into court, this lien was imperfect and inchoate in its character, and could not become an actual perfect lien until the fines should be paid into the fine and forfeiture fund; and it was not of such nature as to give the holder a property right in the fines and forfeitures that
Judgment reversed.