Ex parte Schmidt
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Béfore WitheRSPOON, J., Richland, March, 1885. This was an appeal from an order of the Court of General Sessions dismissing a writ of certiorari. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Me. Justice McGowaN.
Frederick Schmidt petitioned the Court, stating that the city council of Columbia had tried and convicted him of “disorderly conduct in the opera house of said city”; that he had no right of appeal from the sentence pronounced, which was that he should pay a fine of forty dollars, or be confined in the guard house for ten days; and being about to be deprived of his liberty by reason of said sentence, which was erroneous and illegal, the city council being wholly without juris*364diction in the premises, prayed for a writ of certiorari,…
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