Bowen v. State

John Bowen was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor. His exception here is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial.

It appears from the State’s evidence that on the afternoon of August 19, 1931, certain officers went to the defendant’s residence in Jackson county, Ga., and found in it about half a gallon of blackberry wine, that the officers found also nearly two gallons of peach' brandy in a five-gallon demijohn, and a two-gallon jug of blackberry wine, hidden in some honeysuckle vines about a hundred yards from the residence; that they found also in an outbuilding…