Slater v. Dodd

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

1. The trial court should have taken judicial notice of the fact that “vodka” is intoxicating and therefore, it was reversible error for the trial court to fail to charge the jury the written requests as set out and complained of in grounds 4 and 8 of the amended motion for new trial. In Snider v. State, 81 Ga. 753 (7 SE 631, 12 ASR 350), and in numerous cases since, it has been held that courts will take judicial notice that “brandy, whiskey, gin, rum and other alcoholic liquids” are intoxicating liquors per se. While the cases have not dealt with “vodka” as…