Thomas v. City of Atlanta

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta, of the offense of keeping whisky on hand for illegal sale. She presented her petition for certiorari to the judge of the superior court, who declined to sanction the same; and in the bill of exceptions this ruling is assigned as error. According to the evidence as set out in the petition, the judge of the superior court should have sanctioned the writ of certirorari; for not only was there no proof which would authorize a finding that the defendant had kept any whisky for the purpose of illegal sale, but the…