Case Name: Brown v. City of Atlanta
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1912-10-22
Citations: 11 Ga. App. 755
Docket Number: 4320
Parties: Brown v. City of Atlanta
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 755–755

Head Matter:
4320.
Brown v. City of Atlanta
Decided October 22, 1912.
Certiorari; from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. June t, 1912.
John A. BoyTcin, for plaintiff in error.
J. L. May son, F. D. Ellis Jr., contra.

Opinion:
Pottle, J.
Evidence that about nightfall on a Sunday the accused was seen in a buggy in one of the public pleasure parks of the city of Atlanta; that he began whistling to attract attention; that shortly thereafter two persons in a buggy.approached and the.accused reached down in his buggy and opened a valise containing eleven half-pints of whisky; that the persons who approached, seeing a police officer looking at the accused, declined to take the whisky, and that the accused at the time had three half-pints of whisky in his pocket, authorized his conviction as a "traveling blind-tiger," under § 1640 of -the Code of the City of Atlanta. Judgment affirmed.