Case ID: ga-app_17/html/0805-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wade, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

7119.
    Parks v. The State.
    Decided April 17, 1916.
    Accusation of sale of liquor; from city court of Carrollton— Judge Beall. November 18, 1915.
    
      Emmett Smith, for plaintiff in error.
    
      O. E. Hoop, solicitor, contra.
   Wade, J.

1. The charge of the court touching the presumption of innocence in favor of the defendant and the doctrine of reasonable doubt was sufficiently full. “It is very seldom that an amplified definition of the term ‘reasonable doubt’ elucidates the meaning of these simple words.” . Middleton v. State, 7 Ga. App. 1 (66 S. E. 22).

2. There is no substantial merit in any of the exceptions, the evidence was amply sufficient to support the verdict, and the trial judge did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Russell, G. J., absent.