Case ID: ga-app_29/html/0207-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

13855.
    Perkins v. The State.
    Decided November 14, 1922.
    Indictment for possessing liquor; from Bulloch superior court — Judge Proctor presiding. June 26, 1922.
    The motion to disqualify the jurors was based on remarks made by the judge to the defendant when a verdict of not guilty was rendered in a case in which he was charged with the sale of intoxicating liquor, the judge then stating that the defendant was guilty.
    
      Moore & Neville, Anderson & Jones, for plaintiff in error.
    
      A. S. Anderson, solicitor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

1. Under the particular facts of the case, the court did not err in overruling the defendant’s motion to disqualify the jurors empanneled at that term of the court.

2. The verdict was authorized by the evidence, and the refusal to grant a new trial was not error.

■Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., conour.