Ex Parte Slaughter

Common-law certiorari to review an order of the Honorable John Den-son, one of the judges of the circuit 'court of Jefferson county, discharging a rule to show cause, issued under section 4052 of the Code, on the complaint of the state fire marshal, against Ernest Henderson.

The function of the writ of certiorari at common law extends to the question of jurisdiction of the inferior tribunal and the external validity and regularity of the proceedings, but not to its intrinsic correctness. Where the forms of law have been followed and jurisdiction appears, here the inquiry ends. Independent Pub.…