Moore v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Liquor. Evidence. Indictment. Accusation.' Witness. Before Judge Yan Epps. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1887. Giles Moore was arraigned and tried on an accusation charging that he “ did sell and barter to one Charley Harper, and other persons to deponent unknown, for a valuable consideration,” liquors, in Fulton county, where such sale was prohibited by the general local option law at the time.
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Liquor. Evidence. Indictment. Accusation.' Witness. Before Judge Yan Epps. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1887. Giles Moore was arraigned and tried on an accusation charging that he “ did sell and barter to one Charley Harper, and other persons to deponent unknown, for a valuable consideration,” liquors, in Fulton county, where such sale was prohibited by the general local option law at the time. The evidence was, in brief, as follows: A policeman, accompanied by two others, went to Moore’s house and looked through it to find whiskey, but found none.Moore was absent. Returning, shortly…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The accusation has but a single count, and alleges a sale made on the first of May, 1887, to,££ Charley Harper, and other persons.to deponent unknown.” By a liberal construction it may embrace a joint sale, or a several sale, or both, or a plurality of either, or a plurality of one with a unit of the other, or a plurality of both, made at the same time; but it gives no hint of several sales made at different times, and in one of which Harper was concerned, and in the other not concerned, nor even so much as present when it took place. The court, however, (as we…
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