Case ID: ga-app_32/html/0040-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

15298.
    JONES v. CITY OF ATLANTA.
    A conviction of keeping a rooming house without a permit, in violation of a municipal ordinance, was not supported by evidence showing that the house was operated by the defendant’s wife and in her name alone.
    Decided April 15, 1924.
    Certiorari; from Fulton superior court — Judge Humphries. December 4, 1923.
    
      G. G. Battle, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. L. Mayson, Jesse M. Wood, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The defendant was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta for conducting a rooming house without a permit from the city authorities, in violation of an ordinance of the City of Atlanta. The evidence showed that at one time a permit to conduct the house in question as a rooming house had been granted to the defendant’s wife, but that this permit had been revoked, and that the premises continued to be operated as a rooming house. There was, however, no evidence introduced which showed that the defendant conducted it as a rooming house. On the contrary, the undisputed evidence disclosed that the rooming house was operated by his wife and in her name alone. It follows that the conviction of the defendant was not authorized by the evidence, and that the court erred in overruling the certiorari.

Judgment reversed.

LuJce and Bloodworih, JJ., concur.