Davis v. State

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

Davis, a school-teacher, was convicted on an accusation before the county judge of McDuffie county, of a *206misdemeanor in cruelly beating one of the boys attending his school. By certiorari he carried the case to the superior court, and thence by writ of error brought it here. Amongst the exceptions taken by certiorari were, that the finding of the county judge was contrary to law, without evidence to support it, etc. Neither by the petition for certiorari, nor by the evidence set out in the answer or return of the county judge, did it appear that the offence was…