State v. Fowler

Carley, Judge.

An accusation was filed in the State Court of Fulton County, charging appellee with the State offenses of selling liquor without a State license and selling alcoholic beverages on Sunday. Appellee filed a motion which he erroneously denominated as a plea of autrefois convict. Appellee’s motion was, in fact, a plea of autrefois acquit. According to the allegations of appellee’s motion, he had been tried in the Municipal Court of the City of Atlanta and acquitted of “the offense of peddling without a license, a violation of a City ordinance.” Based upon his alleged former…