Burkes v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for drunkenness on highway; from city court of Hewnan — Judge Ereeman. August 30, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
Burkes was indicted under the act of the legislature approved August 22, 1905 (Acts of 1905, p. 114), which makes it unlawful for any person to be and appear in an intoxicated condition “on any public street or highway,” etc. He filed a general and special demurrer to the indictment, the latter alleging that the indictment was insufficient in that “it failed to show upon what public street or highway in said county the said Tom Burkes appeared in an intoxicated condition.” The court overruled the demurrers, and exceptions pendente lite were duly filed. The case proceeded to trial and the…
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