Case ID: ga-app_73/html/0408-01.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

31150.
    FOX v. THE STATE.
    Decided February 1, 1946.
    
      James B. Venable, Jackson L. Barwick, Frank A. Bowers, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Bindley W. Camp, solicitor, B. B. Andrews, solicitor-general, Durwood T. Pye, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The defendant was convicted in the criminal court of Fulton County of an attempt to make whisky. The judge of the superior court refused to sanction his petition for the writ of certiorari, and that judgment is assigned as error. The petition was based solely upon the general grounds, and it is well-settled law, where such a petition shows that the verdict excepted to was authorized by the evidence in the case, that the judge of the superior court has the discretion to refuse to sanction the writ of certiorari. Winder v. State, 71 Ga. App. 100, 104 (30 S. E. 2d, 294). Therefore the only question for determination is, was the verdict authorized? Counsel for the accused contends that, if the defendant were guilty of any offense,, it was for making whisky, and not for an attempt to make it. It is possible that some portions of the evidence might have authorized such a finding, but it clearly appears from the record that other portions of the evidence authorized the verdict returned.

The refusal to sanction the writ of certiorari was not error.

Judgment affirmed.

MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.