Georgia Court of Appeals, 1912

Brown v. City of Atlanta

Brown v. City of Atlanta
Georgia Court of Appeals · Decided October 22, 1912 · Pottle
11 Ga. App. 755; 76 S.E. 72; 1912 Ga. App. LEXIS 154

Brown v. City of Atlanta

Opinion of the Court

Pottle, J.

Evidence that about nightfall on a Sunday the accused was seen in a buggy in one of the public pleasure parks of the city of Atlanta; that he began whistling to attract attention; that shortly thereafter two persons in a buggy.approached and the.accused reached down in his buggy and opened a valise containing eleven half-pints of whisky; that the persons who approached, seeing a police officer looking at the accused, declined to take the whisky, and that the accused at the time had three half-pints of whisky in his pocket, authorized his conviction as a “traveling blind-tiger,” under § 1640 of -the Code of the City of Atlanta. Judgment affirmed.

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