Belcher v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for manufacture of liquor; from Jasper superior court — Judge Park. January 6, 1920. 1. The indictment charged. William Belcher with “the offense of a felony, for” he “did unlawfully distill, manufacture and make spirituous liquors, malted-liquors, mixed liquors and beverages, a part of which is alcoholic.”
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Indictment for manufacture of liquor; from Jasper superior court — Judge Park. January 6, 1920. 1. The indictment charged. William Belcher with “the offense of a felony, for” he “did unlawfully distill, manufacture and make spirituous liquors, malted-liquors, mixed liquors and beverages, a part of which is alcoholic.” The judge charged the jury: “If you believe that there was evidence that there was an apparatus for the manufacture of liquor prohibited by law, and . . a barrel of beer which fermented and was alcoholic and would produce intoxication was found at the place, 'and if you further…
1Opinion of the CourtLuke, J.
1. Under the prohibition law (Ga. L. Ex. Sess. 1917, p. 18) declaring it a felony to “ distill, manufacture, or make any liquors or beverages, any part of which is alcoholic,” the act of making an intoxicating beer, through the fermentation of syrup, corn-meal, and water mixed for that purpose, is of itself an offense as complete and distinct as the further act of distilling from such beer a quantity of alcohol, whisky, or rum. Williams v. State, 24 Ga. App. 53 (2) (99 S. E. 711).(a) The failure of the evidence in this case to show the distillation of any quantity of whisky does not,…
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