Coney v. State
Coney v. State
Opinion of the Court
1. “The conviction depending wholly upon circumstantial evidence, it was reversible error for the court to fail to instruct the jury as to the law of circumstantial evidence, though not requested to charge thereon.” Butler v. State, 17 Ga. App. 769 (88 S. E. 593).
Judgment reversed.
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. Under the ruling in Carter v. State, 21 Ga. App. 493 (1, 2) (94 S. E. 630), where one is tried for knowingly allowing apparatus for the distilling of intoxicating liquors to be located upon his premises, and the evidence shows that such apparatus was found upon his premises and that the premises were in the defendant’s actual possession, such evidence, by the express terms of the statute (Act 1917, Ex. Sess., p. 18), is prima facie evidence that the accused had knowledge of the fact that the apparatus was located upon his premises; and in such a case the failure of the court to charge upon the law of circumstantial evidence is not error.
I think the judgment below should be affirmed.
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