Cotton v. City of Atlanta
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Certiorari; from Fulton superior court — Judge Bell,
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
Cotton was convicted in tbe police court of Atlanta of having violated section 1837 of the code of that city, which reads as follows: “Any person or persons-who shall occupy, br allow to be occupied, any house, or portion of a house, to be used as a house of ill-fame in the city of Atlanta, shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the recorder’s court.” The specific charge against him was that he, being the proprietor of a hotel, allowed a man and a woman to resort to a room in…
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