Grubbs v. City of Quitman

1. Where it is sought to review by certiorari a conviction on the charge of having violated a municipal ordinance, the existence of which is admitted in the petition for certiorari, the provisions of the ordinance should be Stated in the petition (Hill v. Atlanta, 125 Ga. 697 (2), 698, 54 S. E. 354, 5 Ann. Cas. 614), but it is mot necessary that the ordinance be literally copied therein. A statement that the ordinance under which the accused was tried was one “making it a penal offense to ‘keep, for the purpose of illegal sale within the limits of said city, any intoxicating liquors’ ” is…