Gurley v. State

'Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of misdemeanor, and charged with retailing spirituous liquors without license. On the trial of the case the jury, under the charge of the court, found the defendant guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the grounds therein stated, which was ov'erruled, and the defendant excepted.

It appears from the evidence in the record, that the defendant had obtained a license from the ordinary of Lumpkin county on the 10th of January, 1879, to retail :spirituous liquors for four months from that date, for which ke paid $8.33, and the…