Court Opinion

ID: 9581394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:14:30.66162+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:55.094583
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. This court has in several cases made the same ruling made in this case, which ruling I think is contrary to the liquor laws and the constitutional provision against double jeopardy. Here the defendant is clobbered with double jeopardy in one trial, which is a switch! See the dissent of Felton and Townsend, JJ., in Roberson v. State, 76 Ga. App. 25, 28-31 (44 SE2d 924). All cases by this court allowing double punishment for the same offense should be overruled. There are two liquor laws in Georgia, one applicable to dry counties and one to wet. Since the “wet” law cannot apply in a dry county, one cannot be convicted of violating the “dry” law in a dry county and in the same case be convicted of violating the “wet” law in the dry county.