Choran v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for unlawful sale of liquor; from Douglas superior court—Judge Bartlett. December 19, 1917. Arthur Choran was charged with selling liquor. H. L. Dorris, a witness for the State, testified: “I went and hunted up Arthur Choran and told him that I wanted to get a quart' of whisky. He had a quart of corn whisky in his hip-pocket pants, in a bottle, and .he let me have the whisky. I told him it was for Lon Beggs and another party.
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Indictment for unlawful sale of liquor; from Douglas superior court—Judge Bartlett. December 19, 1917. Arthur Choran was charged with selling liquor. H. L. Dorris, a witness for the State, testified: “I went and hunted up Arthur Choran and told him that I wanted to get a quart' of whisky. He had a quart of corn whisky in his hip-pocket pants, in a bottle, and .he let me have the whisky. I told him it was for Lon Beggs and another party. I bought the whisky and paid him the money in Douglas county that Lon gave me,—one dollar. This was in the month of January or February, 1917.” The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwell, J.
(After' stating the foregoing facts.) The defendant’s own witness testified that he tried to get some whisky from the defendant on the day the defendant was charged with having sold it. This was a circumstance which the jury had a right to take into consideration. The defendant in'his statement admitted that he had sold whisky illegally, that he had been convicted several times of so doing, and that he was at that' timé under sentence for selling whisky, and that he had a motion for * *119new trial pending. The testimony of the State’s witness, Dorris, included every material'fact necessary .to…
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