Geter v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for making intoxicating liquor; from Harris superior court—Judge Howard. February 1, 1918. The plaintiff in error was indicted for-manufacturing and making alcoholic, spirituous, malt, and intoxicating liquors, and other drinks which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication, to wit, whisky, brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, and beer. The verdict was guilty, with a recommendation that he be punished as for a misdemeanor.
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Indictment for making intoxicating liquor; from Harris superior court—Judge Howard. February 1, 1918. The plaintiff in error was indicted for-manufacturing and making alcoholic, spirituous, malt, and intoxicating liquors, and other drinks which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication, to wit, whisky, brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, and beer. The verdict was guilty, with a recommendation that he be punished as for a misdemeanor. The grounds of his motion for a new trial, besides the general grounds, were that the court erred in failing to charge the first paragraph of section 1066 of the…
1Opinion of the Court
•Harwell, J.
(After stating the-foregoing facts.)'
1. The charge of the court fully and fairly submitted to the jury the issues in the case, and there is ho merit in the special grounds of the motion for a new trial which complain that the court erred in not giving in charge certain provisions of the code *266as to the punishment of attempts to commit crime, and section 42 of the Penal Code as to principals in the first and second degrees. Failure to charge as to the punishment for an attempt, 'which in this case would reduce the punishment to that of a misdemeanor, could not have harmed the…
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