Smith v. Gwinnett County

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

A Gwinnett County recorder’s court found C. W. Smith and Bobby Cochran guilty of violating a Gwinnett County ordinance. Smith and Cochran appealed the convictions by filing a petition for writ of certiorari in the State Court of Gwinnett County. In the petition, Smith and Cochran raised the sufficiency of the evidence and other grounds. Gwinnett County moved to dismiss the petition. It claimed that Smith and Cochran had failed to assert errors by the trial court with specificity, urged that the correct burden of proof had been applied by the recorder’s court, and…