Johnson v. City of Atlanta

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta, and the sentence was that she “pay a fine of $100 and costs, and that in default of such payment said defendant work on the streets or public works of said city thirty days, under the direction of the superintendent of public works.” She brought the case by certiorari to the superior court. Her contentions were that the conviction was without evidence to support it, and that the sentence was illegal, in that the recorder had no right to sentence her to the public works, in default of the payment of the fine;…