Patton v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Limitations. Liquor. Evidence. Before Judge Wellborn. Habersham superior 'court. September term, 1887. The defendant was indicted, at March term, 1887, by the grand jury of Habersham county for selling, without license and taking the oath prescribed in the code, spirituous liquors in quantities less than a gallon; also for selling without registering as a dealer; also, after having registered, for failing and refusing to pay the tax required of such…
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Criminal law. Indictment. Limitations. Liquor. Evidence. Before Judge Wellborn. Habersham superior 'court. September term, 1887. The defendant was indicted, at March term, 1887, by the grand jury of Habersham county for selling, without license and taking the oath prescribed in the code, spirituous liquors in quantities less than a gallon; also for selling without registering as a dealer; also, after having registered, for failing and refusing to pay the tax required of such dealers; also for selling at retail without taking the oath prescribed and paying the license to the county authority…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. By the code, §4664, it is declared that offences shall be prosecuted and punished under the laws in force at the time of the commission of the same, notwithstanding the *717repeal of such laws before the trial takes place. The time within which indictments are to be found and filed, in cases of misdemeanor, is two years after the commission of the offence. Code, §4665. It follows that if the special local option law of December 24th, 1884, (acts T884-5, p. 523,) for Habersham county, went into effect on the 5 th of August, 1885, it was not too late to prosecute at March…
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