Hitt v. City of Atlanta

Frankum, Judge.

Mrs. Pearl Walters Hitt entered a plea of guilty in the Municipal Court of Atlanta to a charge that she had violated a penal ordinance of the City of Atlanta. Whereupon she was sentenced on September 22, 1960. On January 3, 1961, she presented for sanction her petition for writ of certiorari to Hon. George P. Whitman, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, who presided at a hearing held on February 7, 1961, to determine whether or not the petition should be sanctioned. On February 8, 1961, Judge Whitman, by written order, refused to sanction…