Bush v. State

The .defendant was charged with having, con- . *127trolling, and possessing alcoholic liquors. The undisputed evidence showed that a large quantity (about three, hundred pints)’ of whiskey was found in a locked closet in the defendant’s private home. The sole defense was that this whisky was in the closet of a room which his wife had rented to a “Mr. and Mrs. Hattaway of Atlanta,” and that he (the defendant) knew nothing of its presence in his home,-and that it must have been put and kept there by Hattaway. The judge in his charge gave the defendant the full benefit of this defense, by fully…