Georgia Court of Appeals, 1927

Gunn v. State

Gunn v. State
Georgia Court of Appeals · Decided November 15, 1927 · Luke
37 Ga. App. 333; 140 S.E. 524; 1927 Ga. App. LEXIS 656

Gunn v. State

Opinion of the Court

Luke, J.

The defendant was charged with and convicted of being drunk on a public highway, which drunkenness “was made manifest by boisterousness, and by indecent condition and acting, and by vulgar, profane and unbecoming language, and loud and violent discourse.” The evidence failed to sustain theáe allegations of the indictment; and under the evidence as to the defendant’s condition it is not unreasonable to conclude that he did not go voluntarily upon the public highway, but was driven there by some one else and thereafter abandoned. The trial judge erred in overruling the motion for a new trial. See Reddick v. State, 35 Ga. App. 256 (132 S. E. 645); Howell v. State, 13 Ga. App. 74, 77, 78 (78 S. E. 859).

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, G. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.

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