Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0304-01.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

17765.
    Hilson v. The State.
    Decided January 11, 1927.
    Possession of apparatus for making liquor; from city court of Sandersville — -Judge Goodwin. . October 20, 1926.
    It was testified that in the defendant’s home were two barrels of mobby, “prepared to make liquor from,” and a wash-pot and a galvanized tin lid which fit the pot fairly well; that the pot was “an ordinary wash-pot such as negroes use for washing purposes,” but “there was nothing about it to show that it had ever been used for making any liquor;” that the mobby was made of corn, water, and syrup, and liquor could have been made from it, but the witnesses could not say whether it had been run through a still; it looked as if it had been cooked; the rim of the wash-pot had on it something that looked like dried dough, but there was nothing on the lid; that the defendant said he had not made any liquor since Christmas, and he made it with a borrowed still. The defendant, in his statement at the trial, said that the stuff which they said he had for making whisky was for feeding his hogs; that he had the wash-pot in his house’ to keep anybody from stealing it; that he found the lid in the road, and that he was not guilty of making whisky and did not have any of these things for that purpose.
    
      J. J. Harris, for plaintiff in error,
    cited 24 Ga. App. 319 (1) .
    
      George C. Evans, solicitor, contra.
    Intoxicating Liquors, 33 C. J. p. 761, n. 53.
   .Broyles, C. J.

Tliere ivas no evidence authorizing the defendant’s conviction of the offense charged, and the refusal to grant him a new trial was error.

Judgment reversed.

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