Banks v. State

Clark, Judge.

Appellant’s tsoriss 1 stemmed from the finding of a letter bearing her name in a bag of garbage which had been dumped on Poston Road. This was the only incriminating circumstance which the state was able to produce in obtaining a conviction of defendant for violation of the Public Nuisance Act of Clayton County, Georgia. The sole prosecution witness in this non-jury trial was an employee from the county’s Refuse Control Department who testified that "this was the procedure of the Refuse Control personnel to-wit, to inspect garbage that has been dumped in various places, and to…