Worthy v. City of Atlanta

Worthy was convicted in the recorder’s court of the city of Atlanta on the charge of having violated a municipal *740ordinance which prohibits the keeping of spirituous liquors for unlawful sale. He took the case to the superior court by certiorari. The certiorari was overruled, and he excepted. The evidence disclosed that a great number of cases of liquor, each containing 48 half-pints, had been delivered to the defendant in the month of January, 1916, by the express company, and that about a half-barrel of whisky and some 25 or 30 half-pints of whisky in different boxes, alleged to be the…