Smith v. City of Rome

1. Where, on a trial by the mayor and council on appeal, in the case of one who had been convicted hy the recorder of the city on the charge of having violated a municipal ordinance, the evidence and the defendant’s statement had been received and the hearing of the ease concluded, it was not error to exclude the accused from the court-room during the deliberations of the mayor and council as to the judgment *162to be rendered. Nor is it sufficient ground for a new trial that the city’s attorney, who had conducted the prosecution, and the chief of police, who had aided and advised him in the…