Coggins v. City of Griffin
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Petition for certiorari, from Spalding superior court — Judge Beagan. June 16, 1908. This case came here upon exceptions to the refusal of the judge , of the superior court to sanction a certiorari brought to review the conviction of the petitioner in the police court of Griffin.
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Petition for certiorari, from Spalding superior court — Judge Beagan. June 16, 1908. This case came here upon exceptions to the refusal of the judge , of the superior court to sanction a certiorari brought to review the conviction of the petitioner in the police court of Griffin. The accusation is not in the record, but it is recited that he stood “charged with the offense of keeping for sale a certain quantity of spirituous and intoxicating liquor in the city of Griffin on the second day of May, 1908, in violation of the city ordinance." A copy of the ordinance appears in the record and is…
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. That the very ordinance in question was valid prior to the passage of the general prohibition act was settled by the Supreme Court in the case of Cunningham v. Griffin, 107 Ga. 690 (33 S. E. 664). We have decided that it is still enforceable. Since we are, at this sitting of the court, discussing at length, in the case of Callaway v. Mims, post, 10, the effect of the prohibition act of 1907 upon the authority of municipal corporations to pass ordinances of the character of the present one, we will not go into elaboration here.
2. It is too well…
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