Hawkins v. State

The defendant was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor, and assigns error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The only special ground of the motion alleges that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “If some other person or persons possessed intoxicating liquors in this county as charged in the bill, and this defendant was present, aiding and abetting, at the time, such other person or persons in their criminal act and participating in their criminal intent, he would be guilty and you ought to so find. If neither of these statements of facts are true, he would…