Grimes v. State

1. Where the accused was convicted under an indictment charging him with selling and bartering, for a valuable consideration, intoxicating liquors, the verdict was not unauthorized because the witnesses for the State testified that they had “bought” whisky from the accused, without testifying anything about the consideration, whether it was money or something else of value. As was held in Howell v. State, 124 Ga. 698, an indictment for selling whisky need not allege that the sale was for a valuable consideration, as the words “for a valuable consideration” are merely surplusage; but where the…