Eberhart v. State

Gardner, P. J.(a) The defendant was indicted and convicted of possessing non-tax-paid whisky. He filed a motion for new trial on the general grounds and thereafter added one special ground. This motion was overruled, and the case is here for review on that judgment.(b) The evidence, briefly but substantially, shows that three officers, Walter Griffith, an investigator for the United States Tax Unit, E. E. Hardy, of the Athens Police Department, and John H. Williams, Clarke County policeman, parked their car “in a back yard . . . near the store” where the whisky was found (this store did not…