Case ID: ga-app_33/html/0349-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

16042.
    WILKERSON v. THE STATE.
    A general verdict of guilty upon an indictment in two counts, one charging the keeping of a lewd house for the practice of fornication and adultery and the other charging the keeping .and maintaining of a common, ill-governed, and disorderly house, to the encouragement of idleness, drinking, and other misbehavior, was not authorized, where there was no evidence that authorized a conviction under the second count.
    Decided January 13, 1925.
    Keeping lewd house; from Wilkes superior court—Judge Shurley. October 14, 1924.
    
      H. E. Combs, F. IF. Gilbert, Colley & Colley, for plaintiff in error.
    
      M. L. Fells, solicitor-general, contra.
   Luke, J.

The defendant was convicted generally upon an indictment which in one count charged her with keeping a lewd house for the practice of fornication and adultery, and in the other charged her with keeping and maintaining a common, ill-governed, and disorderly house, to the encouragement of idleness, drinking, and other misbehavior (Penal Code, §§ 382, 383). There was no evidence authorizing a conviction under the second count, and therefore the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, and the court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial. See, in this connection, Fanning v. State, 17 Ga. App. 316 (2) (86 S. E. 731); Brooks v. State, 27 Ga. App. 629 (87 S. E. 909).

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.