Case ID: ga-app_61/html/0586-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gueeby, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

27832.
    Powell, alias Pyle, v. The State.
    Decided January 18, 1940.
   Gueeby, J.

1. Where the defendant was indicted and convicted on the charge of selling intoxicating liquors, the conviction was not unauthorized on testimony for the State that the "witness “purchased” certain whisky from the accused, without testifying as to the consideration paid, whether in money or other thing of value. Proof that the witness “purchased” whisky from the defendant, though the consideration be undisclosed, is “sufficient to import a valuable consideration.” Grimes v. State, 32 Ga. App. 541 (123 S. E. 918). This is true whether or not the indictment alleges, with reference to the sale, that it was for a valuable consideration.

2. Though the evidence, which was direct, was in sharp conflict, Die jury found adversely to the accused, and this court is powerless' to interfere.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, G. J., and MacIntyre, J., concur.

Kelly •& Hides, for plaintiff in error.

J. Ralph Rosser, solicitor-general, Alec Harris, contra.