Case ID: ga_112/html/0075-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Colwell v. The State.
    Submitted October 15,
    Decided October 30, 1900.
    Accusation of selling liquor without license. Before Judge Parker. City court of Baxley. July 5, 1900.
    
      Bennett & Bennett, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. H. Thomas, solicitor, contra.
   Cobb, J.

1. The sale, without taking out the prescribed license, of a medicinal preparation capable of being used as a beverage, and which contains such a percentage of alcohol as that, if drunk to excess, it will produce intoxication, is unlawful, within the meaning of a statute prohibiting the sale without a-license of “ spirituous, malt, or any intoxicating liquors or bitters,” whether the vendor in making the sale intended that it should be used as a medicine or otherwise, and without reference to the purpose for which it was bought-by the purchaser. Chapman v. State, 100 Ga. 311.

2. The overruling of a demurrer to an indictment is not a proper ground of a, motion for a new trial.

3. The charges complained of were not erroneous for any of the reasons assigned. The evidence authorized the verdict, and there was no error in refusing to-grant a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., and Little, J., absent.