Barbour v. State
| Decision Date | 02 November 1917 |
| Docket Number | 9117. |
| Parties | BARBOUR v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Syllabus by the Court.
Where a single penal statute may be violated in one of several ways not repugnant to one another, the accused may, in an indictment containing a single count, be charged with violating the statute in each and all of the several ways prohibited in the statute, and in such cases proof of the commission of any one of the acts by which the statute is violated will support a conviction. Hall v. State, 8 Ga.App. 747, 70 S.E. 211; Cooper v. State, 9 Ga.App. 877, 72 S.E. 436; Sanders v. State, 86 Ga. 717, 12 S.E. 1058; Grantham v. State, 89 Ga 121, 14 S.E. 892; Langston v. State, 109 Ga. 153, 35 S.E. 166, 779; Henderson v. State, 113 Ga. 1148, 39 S.E. 446; Hubbard v. State, 123 Ga. 17, 51 S.E. 11; Haley v. State, 124 Ga. 216, 52 S.E. 159; Wharton's Crim. Pl. & Pr. §§ 161, 162. It follows that where an accusation, based upon the act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved March 28, 1917 (Acts 1917 Extraordinary Session, pp. 7, 8), which makes it a misdemeanor for any person "to have, control, or possess" in this state spirituous liquors charges that the accused did "have, control, and possess" spirituous liquors, it is not necessary for the state to prove that the accused had, controlled, and possessed the liquors; but proof that he had the liquors, or proof that he controlled them, or proof that he possessed them, would be sufficient to support a conviction, and the court did not err in so instructing the jury.
While some of the other excerpts from the charge of the court excepted to, are subject to some slight criticism, none of them, when considered in the light of the entire charge and of the particular facts of the case, requires a reversal of the case. The charge as a whole was a full, fair, and correct presentation of the contentions of the parties and of the law of the case.
The evidence, though circumstantial in its nature, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Error from City Court of Savannah; John Rourke, Jr., Judge.
A. D Barbour was convicted in the city court of Savannah of having, controlling, or possessing spirituous liquors, and he brings error. Affirmed.
See, also, 92 S.E. 70.
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