Phillips v. City of Atlanta

Simmons, Justice.

William R. Phillips, Jr., was summoned before the recorder’s court of the city of Atlanta, to answer the charge of engaging in the business of pawnbroker without registering as such or obtaining a license. On the trial of the case before the recorder, he was convicted of said offence, and sued out a certiorari to the superior court of Fulton county, alleging error in the recorder in convicting him of the offence charged. The recorder answered the same, and the answer was traversed by the plaintiff in error. When the case was called for trial, the defendant admitted the…