Walker v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
. Indictment for misdemeanor. Before Judge Burch. City court of Dublin. September 4, 1905. The accusation charged that the accused “did contract to sell, solicit, and take orders for the sale of spirituous, malt, and intoxicating liquors.”
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. Indictment for misdemeanor. Before Judge Burch. City court of Dublin. September 4, 1905. The accusation charged that the accused “did contract to sell, solicit, and take orders for the sale of spirituous, malt, and intoxicating liquors.” From the testimony of several witnesses it appeared, that he was the manager, at Dublin, of a long-distance telephone line; and that upon various occasions, upon the witnesses coming to his office and signifying their desire to order whisky from Macon, he furnished to them a blank form for an order (which sometimes he filled) and with a stamped envelope in…
1Opinion of the CourtCandlee, J.
1. The facts appearing in the present record are substantially the same as in the record of the case brought to this court at the last term, when the law applicable thereto was decided. Walker v. Stake, 122 Ga. 747. ’
2. Where the allegations of an indictment are legally sufficient to describe and define the criminal act charged, it is not error for the court to instruct the jury that upon proof of these allegations beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury is under a duty to convict.
3. A charge that if one took orders for.the sale of whisky at the time and place and in the manner alleged in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
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