Zetterower v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Although denied by the defendant, the jury was authorized to find that he admitted the possession of the whisky. Bulloch County being dry—of which fact this court takes judicial notice (see Leonard v. State, 204 Ga. 465 (4a), 50 S. E. 2d, 212)—-the quantity of whisky was in violation of law. In Brown v. State, 74 Ga. App. 880 (3, 4, 5) (41 S. E. 2d, 912), it was held: “Where the defendant admitted that the whisky belonged to him without saying anything more, this raised a legal presumption that he knowingly possessed, had or controlled it. This presumption…