Case ID: ga-app_3/html/0020-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

770.
    Barge v. The State.
    Indictment for unlawful sale of liquor, from Douglas superior court — Judge Edwards. August 24, 1907.
    Argued November 11,
    Decided November 14, 1907.
    
      Joseph 8. James, for plaintiff in error.
    .IF. K. Fielder, solicitor-general, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

Por the trial judge to state, in the hearing of the jury on the trial of a criminal ease, that if the defendant did not put in any evidence he would direct a verdict against the defendant, is manifest error, and imperatively requires the grant of a new trial, however conclusive the evidence establishing guilt. Penal Code, § 1032.

Judgment reversed.