Palfus v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari from County-Court. Decided by Judge Yasoet, Dougherty Superior Court, January Adjourned Term, 1867. In the County-Court of said county, in July, 1866, Palfus was tried on an indictment for keeping and maintaining a common ill-governed and disorderly house. The testimony introduced was as follows : James II.
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Certiorari from County-Court. Decided by Judge Yasoet, Dougherty Superior Court, January Adjourned Term, 1867. In the County-Court of said county, in July, 1866, Palfus was tried on an indictment for keeping and maintaining a common ill-governed and disorderly house. The testimony introduced was as follows : James II. Hill testified that about four weeks before, at 11 or 12 o’clock at night, there was loud noise upon the steps and in the house of defendant; he went there to stop it; negroes were cursing upon the steps; witness saw two negroes with their heads poked out of the second door…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
I. A new trial should have been awarded by the Superior Court. Carefully analysing the testimony to ascertain its probative force, we think that it is very far from establishing the fact alleged, that defendant “ did keep and maintain a common ill-governed and disorderly house, to the encouragement of idleness, gaming, drinking, or other misbehavior, or to the common disturbance of the neighborhood or orderly citizens.” There is not a particle of testimony which classes the house of defendant as an inn, a gaming house, or drink*284ing saloon, or ten-pin alley, or as a house or place where the…
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