Wells v. State

The act prohibiting the transportation of intoxicating liquors, and subjecting to confiscation “vehicles and conveyances” thus used, applies in terms to such use “on any of the public roads or private ways of this State.” Park’s Code Supp. 1917, § 448 (oooo). While it is not vital, therefore, for the State in a confiscation proceeding to show such use of an automobile on a public road, or on its own motion to prove the manner and method of the establishment of the “public road” or “private way” (see Bugg v. Cook, 32 Ga. App. 116, 122 S. E. 714 (1)), still it is necessary for the State to show…