Smith v. Mayor C. of MacOn

Candler, Justice.

The office of a certiorari is to review a judgment of an inferior judicatory when such tribunal exercises judicial or quasi-judicial powers. Code, § 19-201; Bryant v. Board of Education of Colquitt County, 156 Ga. 688 (119 S. E. 601). A petition for certiorari is in effect a motion for new trial, and it is well settled that in an application for the writ the petitioner “shall plainly and distinctly set forth the errors complained of.” Codey § 19-203. An error which may be corrected by a writ of certiorari is one made by the tribunal whose judgment is being reviewed because of…