Lumpkin v. City of Atlanta

If the evidence points to the defendant’s guilt of any offense, it is that of selling intoxicating liquor, of which the recorder’s court has no jurisdiction, because the State courts alone .have cognizance of this offense. Moran v. Atlanta, 102 Ga. 840 (30 S. E. 298). If there were circumstances indicating that the accused had been in possession or control of the liquor in question, the evidence of an illegal sale might be sufficient to support the inference that he was keeping it for sale in violation of a municipal ordinance; but there being no such evidence in the record, and, on the…