Hendrix v. State

CATES, Judge.

Hendrix was, on March 21, 1956, found guilty by a jury in the DeKalb County Court of possessing prohibited liquor and fined $75 and costs. He appeals to us saying, first, the State did not make a case; and, second, that “'homebrew” cannot be judicially known as a prohibited beverage.

As to this latter proposition, it may be that the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment has diminished subsequent generations’ acquaintance with the yeasty tasting, sediment laden “wash” called homebrew. However, we think the court properly left to the jury the question of whether home-brew was or was…