Case ID: ga-app_30/html/0778-01.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

14376.
    Boyd v. The State.
    Decided October 3, 1923.
    Indictment for having and for selling liquor; -from Floyd superior court — -Judge Wright. February 12, 1923.
    
      Porter & Mebane, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. S.- Taylor, solicitor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

Where in the first count of an indictment it is alleged that the defendant on November 15, 1922, did sell spirituous liquors, etc., and in the second count of the same indictment it is alleged that the defendant on the same date did have, possess, and control spirituous liquors, etc., and the same evidence is relied upon to convict under both counts, and' the evidence adduced demands a conviction under both counts, and the court instructs the jury upon both counts of the indictment, a verdict finding the defendant guilty of the - first count and silent as to the second count is not void for repugnancy. Boyd v. State, 156 Ga. 48 (118 S. E. 705).

(a) Under the above ruling, which is the answer of the Supreme Court to a question certified to that court by this court, the ti-ial judge did not err in overruling the defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.