Wright v. State

Willie Wright was convicted, in the city court of Atlanta of the offense of having, possessing, and controlling alcoholic liquor. She sued out certiorari, basing her petition on the general grounds. The certiorari was overruled and she excepted. The evidence discloses that officers went to her house and found her and two or three others in a room, and that when the officers entered the room she was drinking from a glass practically filled with whisky. The officer asked her to give him the glass, and she refused to do so, and it was knocked out of her hand, and when the officer picked it up…