Case ID: ga-app_37/html/0822-01.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

18640.
    Kersey v. The State.
    Criminal Law, 16 C. J. p. 736, n. 50; p. 1180, n. 74.
    Decided March 7, 1928.
    Possessing intoxicating liquor; from Jeff Davis superior court— Judge J. H. Thomas. October 29, 1927.
    
      Chastain & Henson, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. B. Gibbs, solicitor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The defendant was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquors. The State introduced a confession made by him, and proved the corpus delicti. Such proof authorized the jury to find that it was sufficient corroboration of the confession. Davis v. State, 105 Ga. 808 (3) (32 S. E. 158). The verdict was authorized by the evidence and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial, which contained the usual general grounds only.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke, J., concurs. Bloodworth, J., absent on account of illness.