Case ID: ga-app_31/html/0771-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam. Bloodworth, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

15193, 15194.
    Barrett v. The State (two cases).
    Decided March 6, 1924.
    Indictments for violation of prohibition law; from Floyd superior court—Judge Wright. November 1, 1923.
    
      Harris & Harris, for plaintiff in error.
    
      E. S. Taylor, solicitor-general, contra.
   Per Curiam.

In each of these cases (in one of which the defendant was convicted of making intoxicating liquor, and in the other of’ possessing such liquor) the evidence amply authorized the conviction. The still was found in his hog lot and within a short distance from his house, and had been operated there for several months. The jury had a right to disbelieve the defendant’s statement, and, with his statement excluded,' the conviction was demanded.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, O. J., and Luke, J., concur.

Bloodworth, J.,

dissenting. The evidence upon which the State relies

for a conviction in these eases is entirely circumstantial, and in neither of them is it sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.