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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hayes v. The Mayor and Town Council of Lithonia.
    Where one of the errors assigned in a petition for certiorari is that the judgment complained of was without any evidence to support it and contrary to the evidence, the petition should set forth the substance of all the evidence that was introduced; and a statement in the petition that a number of witnesses were introduced to prove the commission of the offence but none of them would so testify, without setting out what they did testify, is insufficient. For this reason the judge did not err in refusing to sanction the petition for certiorari in the present case. Judgment affirmed.
    
    June 11, 1894.
    Argued at the last term.
    Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Richard EL Clark. DeKalb county. July 19, 1893.
    J. N. Glenn, for plaintiff in error.
   According to the petition, Hayes was arrested and tried before the mayor of Lithonia upon the charge of violating an ordinance of that town by keeping spirituous liquors for sale. It sets forth a copy of the ordinance, and states that the testimony on the part of the town was by the marshals thereof, who said they found some jugs of corn whisky in petitioner’s possession, which they seized and brought into court, two of which were full, the other was not; and that when arrested petitioner denied having sold any liquor or having it for sale. The petition then sets forth the statement recited substantially in the head-note; and then the assignments of error, alleging that the mayor and council had no charter power to adopt or enforce the ordinance; that the sentence was a nullity; and that the mayor’s finding was without any evidence to support it, and contrary to the evidence, to law, justice and right. The judge declined to sanction the petition.