Legal Opinion
Lovell v. City of Griffin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 28, 1938No. 391PublishedCited by 1,286 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Appellant, Alma Lovell, was convicted in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Griffin, Georgia, of the violation of a city ordinance and was sentenced to imprisonment for fifty days in default of the payment of a fine of fifty dollars. The Superior Court of the county refused sanction of a petition for review; the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Superior Court (55 Ga. App. 609; 191 S. E. 152); and the Supreme Court of the State denied an application for certiorari. The case comes here on appeal.
The ordinance in question is as follows:
“Section 1. That the practice of distributing,…
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