Case Name: DAY v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1949-07-15
Citations: 79 Ga. App. 662
Docket Number: 32612
Parties: DAY v. THE STATE.
Judges: MacIntyre, P. J., and Gardner, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 79
Pages: 662–663

Head Matter:
32612.
DAY v. THE STATE.
Decided July 15, 1949.
Emmett Smith, for plaintiff in error.
Earl Staples, Solicitor, contra.

Opinion:
Townsend, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The accusation here makes no reference to the premises of the defendant. As was held in Johnson v. State, 79 Ga. App. 210 (53 S. E. 2d, 498), "The gravamen of the offense making penal the possession of an apparatus for illegally distilling alcoholic liquors, as provided in Code § 58-209, is knowingly having upon- one's premises such an apparatus or knowingly permitting or allowing another to do so." Accordingly, an accusation which fails to charge that the defendant had such an apparatus on his premises, or that he knowingly permitted or allowed another to do so, is subject to general demurrer. See Johnson v. State, supra, and cases there cited.
Since the trial court erred in overruling the demurrer and not dismissing the accusation, all subsequent proceedings were nugatory.
Judgment reversed.
MacIntyre, P. J., and Gardner, J., concur.