Cottongim v. City of East Point

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged by accusation (uniform traffic citation) with failure to keep vehicle under control as a state offense. Upon the trial of the case in the City Court of East Point the trial court, after hearing evidence, determined that the defendant was guilty of the offense of driving “too fast for conditions.”

Defendant applied to the superior court for certiorari complaining that the verdict and sentence of the city court was illegal because of the insufficiency of the evidence and on the basis of the trial judge’s changing the charge against defendant and…