Smith v. State

The defendant was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquors, and excepts to the overruling of her motion for a new trial.

Some of the excerpts from the charge of which complaint is made in the motion for a new trial are susceptible to adverse criticism; but such errors will not require a new trial, because, under the evidence, including the defendant’s statement, the jury rendered the only legal verdict they could have returned. The officers *623testified that they went to the defendant’s home and that when they arrived she was sitting on the front porch; that when they stopped the car she…