Johnson v. State

1. The defendant was convicted in the criminal court of Atlanta for possessing whisky. He carried his case by certiorari to the superior court of Fulton County, and now excepts to and assigns error on the judgment of the superior court overruling the certiorari. Under all the facts of the case it was not error for the trial judge to admit evidence that on another occasion, about two months after the date of the offense charged, a large quantity of whisky was found at the defendant’s place of *332business. “This evidence was admissible to prove scienter, or guilty knowledge of the accused, and to…