5 Ga. App. 100 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1908
Condon was adjudged guilty of violating a municipal ordinance, by the mayor’s court of the town of Jesup, and he sued out a writ of certiorari to correct error'in the judgment. On the hearing of the certiorari the defendant therein moved to-dismiss the proceedings, because the petitioner had not given bond as required by the act of 1902 (Acts 1902, p. 105). Tim act provides that “any person who seeks a writ of certiorari to review and correct the judgment of any recorder’s court, or of other police court, of any town or city, by whatever name known, shall first file with the clerk of said court, or, if no clerk, with, the judge of said court, except when the pauper affidavit hereinafter provided for is furnished, a bond payable to the municipal corporation under which such court exists, in amount and security acceptable to and approved by the said clerk or judge, as the case may be, conditioned for the personal appearance of the defendant to abide the final order, judgment, or sentence of said court, or of the superior court, in said ease.” There was no-affidavit in forma pauperis. There was a bond signed by the plaintiff in certiorari and a surety, which appeared to be in all respects in conformity 'to the statute, supra, except that the bond