McDonald v. Town of Ludowici

1. It will he presumed that a municipal ordinance is valid, and the burden of establishing its invalidity is on the person asserting it. Penal Code, § 1020 (1910); Moore v. Thomasville, ante, 285 (86 S. E. 641), and cases therein cited. In this case the presumption that the ordinance in question was a legal and valid one was not overcome by the evidence introduced. It is not even necessary, on a trial before the mayor or eoüneil of a city, to introduce the town ordinance under which the accused is being tried. The city officials can take judicial cognizance of all ordinances of their own…