Case Name: Skinner v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1899-03-14
Citations: 108 Ga. 747
Docket Number: 
Parties: Skinner v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concurring.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 747–747

Head Matter:
Skinner v. The State.
Argued February 6,
Decided March 14, 1899.
Indictment for selling liquor. Before Judge Janes. Douglas superior court. December 8, 1898.
John V. Edge, J. 8. James, and W. A. James, for plaintiff in error. W. T. Roberts, solicitor-general, contra.

Opinion:
Lumpkin, P. J.
1. The rule relating to the distinction between positive and negative evidence does not apply and should not be given in charge to a jury, when there are two witnesses having equal facilities for seeing or hearing the thing about which they testify, and, directly contradicting each other, one of them testifies that it occurred and the other that it did not. Civil Code, § 5165, and cases there cited. See also Killian v. Ga. R. R. Co., 97 Ga. 728; Humphries v. State, 100 Ga. 200.
2.- The charge upon this rule, to which exception is taken in the present case, was unwarranted. Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concurring.