Newberry v. State

The defendant was tried in the county of Whitfield on an indictment containing two counts. Count 1 charged him with possessing more than one quart of alcoholic liquors, said county not being one of the counties of Georgia within which such liquors could be legally sold or transported.' Count 2 charged him with possessing non-taxpaid alcoholic liquors. A general verdict of guilty ivas returned. A motion for new trial containing only the general grounds ivas overruled, and that judgment is assigned as error. The only evidence tending to connect the defendant with the first-named offense was the…