Stoker v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court of LaGrange— Judge Moon. July 6; 1918. The accusation charged the defendant with having unlawful possession of alcoholic, and spirituous liquors and whisky.
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Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court of LaGrange— Judge Moon. July 6; 1918. The accusation charged the defendant with having unlawful possession of alcoholic, and spirituous liquors and whisky. Paragraph 4 of the decision relates to exceptions based on the following facts: When the Verdict of guilty was rendered the trial judge asked if any one present knew the defendant, and after hearing statements as to his character, and before the judgment was signed, announced that the defendant was sentenced to serve six months in the. chain-gang, “with the alternative of discharging the same by…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. There is no merit in those grounds of the motion for a new trial which complain of the admission of certain testimony of witnesses for the State as to finding a flask of whisky in the defendant’s pocket when searching his person while he was under arrest. Even had the arrest been illegal and the search unauthorized, as contended, the evidence would have been admissible. Smith v. State, 144 Ga. 679 (87 S. E. 893); Smith v. State, 17 Ga. App. 693 (88 S. E. 42).
2. The court did not err in admitting in evidence the contents of a jug and a flask which witnesses for the State found on the person…
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