Fitts v. City of Atlanta

J. L. Fitts was adjudged guilty, in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta, of violating a certain municipal ordinance, and sentence was imposed on him therefor. He took the case by certiorari to the superior court, where, upon the hearing, the certiorari was overruled. Thereupon he sued out a writ of error to this court. Our learned brother Lumpkin, who presided in the superior court, rendered an opinion in the case, which comes up in the record and which is as follows:

“ This case presents a contest of strength between ‘ Prof.’ Fitts and a municipal ordinance of the City of Atlanta. The…