Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0811-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2632.
    Townsend v. The State.
    Indictment for sale of liquor; from Walker superior court-judge Maddox. April 11, 1910.
    Submitted June 1,
    Decided June 14, 1910.
    
      P. D. Wright, W. M. Henry, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John W. Bale, solicitor-general, contra.
   Hill, O. J.

It not being affirmatively shown that the offense was committed prior to the finding of the indictment, the conviction was unauthorized by law. Tharpe v. State, 2 Ga. App. 649 (58 S. E. 1070); Askew v. State, 3 Ga. App. 79 (59 S. E. 311) ; Minhinnett v. State, 106 Ga. 141 (32 S. E. 19). Judgment reversed.