Case ID: ga-app_35/html/0242-02.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

17081.
    Burkhalter v. The State.
    Intoxicating Liquors, 33 O. J. p. 761, n. 53,
    Decided April 14, 1926.
   Broyles, C. J.

The charge of the court complained of was not error, and the verdict was authorized by the evidence. The particular facts of the ease distinguish it from Toney v. State, 30 Ga. App. 61 (116 S. E. 550), and the other cases cited in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error, there being no positive evidence in the instant case that any person, except the defendant, his wife and children, lived in the house where the whisky was found. The jury had a right to disbelieve the defendant’s statement that “another party lived there.”

Judgment affirmed.

Luke, J., concurs. Bloodworth, J., not participating, on account of illness.

Conviction of ■ possession of liquor; from city court of Reidsville—Judge Cowart. November 16, 1925.

EL. LL. Elders, for plaintiff in error.

M. IF. Eason, solicitor, contra.