Lumpkin v. City of Atlanta

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta of violating a municipal ordinance which forbids keeping for unlawful sale any spirituous, fermented, or malt liquors at any place in the city. He excepts to the judgment overruling his certiorari, and insists that the evidence adduced was insufficient to authorize his conviction.

We think this contention is well sustained. The evidence upon the trial is set out fully in the answer of the recorder, and the following facts appear therefrom: The defendant’s wife had a municipal license authorizing her to conduct…