Atterberry v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

An accusation was preferred against L. C. Atterberry in the City Court of Savannah, charging him with the offense of a misdemeanor in that he “Did unlawfully charge and receive, for the loan and advance of $50.00 in money, a rate of interest greater than five per centum per month (by way of commission for advances, discount, exchange, the purchase of salary and wages, and by contracts, contrivances, . and devices unknown, all of which constituted a subterfuge and scheme intentionally used by the accused to evade the laws of the State), from John Reed, for which sum of money,…