Berry v. State, 23785.
| Decision Date | 23 January 1934 |
| Docket Number | No. 23785.,23785. |
| Citation | 172 S.E. 647,48 Ga.App. 303 |
| Parties | BERRY. v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Syllabus by Editorial Staff.
Error from Superior Court, Fulton County; G. H. Howard, Judge.
Casper Berry was convicted of possessing whisky, and he brings error.
Affirmed.
C. G. Battle, of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
John A. Boykin, Sol. Gen., John S. McClelland, Sol., and J. Walter Le Craw, all of Atlanta, for the State.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court.
1. It is well settled by repeated decisions of the Supreme Court and of this court that evidence of a confession, freely and voluntarily made by the defendant, is direct evidence of the highest character, and, when corroborated by proof of the corpus delicti, is sufficient to authorize his conviction.
2. Under the foregoing ruling and the facts of this case, the verdict finding the defendant guilty of possessing whisky was amply authorized, and the overruling of the certiorari was not error for any reason assigned.
Judgment affirmed.
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