Williams v. State

The accused was tried and convicted, in the criminal court of Atlanta, for the offense of abandonment of his children, leaving them in a dependent and destitute condition. He made application to the judge of the superior court for a writ of certiorari. The judge refused to sanction the petition, and to this judgment the accused accepted.

1. When this case was called for argument in the Supreme Court, the solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit and the solicitor of the criminal court of Atlanta each appeared at the bar of the court and expressed his willingness to undertake to represent the…