Hood v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the criminal court of Atlanta, upon an accusation charging him with the offense of vagrancy. A petition for certiorari was presented by him to the judge of the superior court, who refused to sanction the same; and he excepts to this refusal.

1. As related in the petition for certiorari, the conviction was wholly unauthorized by the evidence submitted; and, under the .previous rulings of this court, when a petition for certiorari is presented to the judge of the superior court, the statements therein contained must be assumed to be true. If they be…