Dismuke v. Trammell

| Ga. | Sep 15, 1879

■Jackson, Justice.

It appeared from the record in this case that the superior court of Spalding county was in session more than thirty days, beginning in August, 1878, and adjourning in January thereafter, and’ that the judgment excepted to had been rendered prior to the 15th of November, 1878, as it provided for a stay, of execution to that date, whilst the bill of -exceptions was signed and certified on the 17th of January, 1879. It seemed, therefore, from the record that the judgment excepted to was rendered more than sixty days before the bill of exceptions was signed and certified, and, if that were true, that this court had no jurisdiction under the statute to review the judgment. Tet the judge certified that the bill of exceptions was tendered within thirty days from the judgment. To arrive at the truth, under the authority of the act of 1877, we directed the clerk of the superior court of Spalding county to certify and send up the •date of the judgment as it appeared on the minutes of the superior court of Spalding county, wdiieh has been accordingly transmitted to us. And from that transcript it appears that the judgment was rendered on the 17th day of August, 1878, some five months before the bill of exceptions was signed and certified..

¥e have held that unless the judge certified that for some reason he retained the bill of exceptions after it had been tendered to him, the date of his certificate will he considered the day it was tendered to him. Montecillo vs. Lawrence & Pope, February 3, 1879.

Where the bill of exceptions and record, properly applied, differ, the former, so far as relates to matters of record, must yield. Indeed, it may be amended so as to conform to the latter. 60 Ga., 450; 59 Ib., 459. Code, §4288. Therefore this bill of exceptions was not tendered' in "time, and we have no jurisdiction to review the judgment complained of. It should have been tendered within sixty days from the time it was rendered, as Spalding, court was held more than thirty days.

We have no option in the premises, but the law which gives us our only authority to hear and review any case, requires us not to hear but to dismiss this case. And it is ■so ordered. Supplement to Code, §25.

Writ of error dismissed.