City of Atlanta v. Stallings

W. J. Stallings, a policeman of the City of Atlanta, was tried, found guilty, and dismissed from the force by the police committee of the general council of the city for conduct unbecoming a policeman, and for a violation of the rules of the police department by being under , the influence of intoxicating liquors while on duty. Stallings obtained a writ of certiorari; and on the hearing thereof, council for the city made an oral motion to dismiss the certiorari as having been improvidently sanctioned. The motion was overruled and to that judgment the city filed a bill of exceptions to this…