Georgia General Assembly

“ Effect of adopting the Code was to enact into one statute all of the sections of the Code. Barnes v. Carter, 120 Ga. 895, 48 S. E. 387 (1904) ; Atkinson v. Swords, 11 Ga. App. 167, 74 S. E. 1093 (1912) . See also Central of Ga. Ry. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S. E. 531, 42 L. R. A. 518 (1898) ; Thornton v. State, 5 Ga. App. 397, 63 S. E. 301 (1908) .
Adoption, not the compilation, is the legislative Act. Western & A. R. R. v. Young, 83 Ga. 512, 10 S. E. 197 (1889) . ”

“ Georgia R. R. & Banking v. Wright, 124 Ga. 596, 53 S. E. 251, aff’d, 125 Ga. 589, 54 S. E. 52 (1906) , rev’d on other grounds, 207 U. S. 127, 28 S. Ct. 47, 52 L. Ed. 134 (1907) ; Hicks v. Moyer, 10 Ga. App. 488, 73 S. E. 754 (1912) ; Farley v. State, 12 Ga. App. 643, 77 S. E. 1131 (1913) ”