Hudson v. Preston

Victoria Hudson, the plaintiff in error, made application for a writ of prohibition against W. H. Preston, recorder pro tern, of the City of Atlanta, and alleged that on September 1, 1909, *223she had been tried and convicted of the offense of disorderly conduct and keeping a disorderly house, and was sentenced to pay a fine or be confined for 30 days in the stockade, and was orally ordered by the court to move her place of residence within three days. Two days afterwards the fine was paid, and she was liberated. On September 7/ 1909, she was arrested and confined in the police station on the…