Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0755-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pottle, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

4320.
    Brown v. City of Atlanta
    Decided October 22, 1912.
    Certiorari; from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. June t, 1912.
    
      John A. BoyTcin, for plaintiff in error.
    J. L. May son, F. D. Ellis Jr., contra.
   Pottle, J.

Evidence that about nightfall on a Sunday the accused was seen in a buggy in one of the public pleasure parks of the city of Atlanta; that he began whistling to attract attention; that shortly thereafter two persons in a buggy.approached and the.accused reached down in his buggy and opened a valise containing eleven half-pints of whisky; that the persons who approached, seeing a police officer looking at the accused, declined to take the whisky, and that the accused at the time had three half-pints of whisky in his pocket, authorized his conviction as a “traveling blind-tiger,” under § 1640 of -the Code of the City of Atlanta. Judgment affirmed.