Mayor of Macon v. Wood

Wood was tried and convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Macon, for the violation of a municipal ordinance. Upon the hearing of a writ of certiorari sued out by him, the judge of the superior court passed an order directing that “the certiorari be sustained and the defendant discharged.” To this order the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon excepted. When the case was called in this court a motion was made to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that in such a case a writ of error would not lie at the instance of the mayor and council.

In the case of Cranston v. Augusta, 61…