Freeman v. State
Freeman v. State
Opinion of the Court
(After stating the foregoing facts.) It does not appear that the three pieces of evidence upon which the State relies are sufficient, either separately or in connection with each other, to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. As to the first, the police officers saw two men come out of the house with bottles in their possession, and saw the defendant talking “to some of them”; but they testified that they did not know what was in the bottles, and in any event they did not testify that the defendant, who was on the porch, gave them the bottles. As to the second, the state
As the evidence is insufficient and the conviction unauthorized, it is unnecessary to obtain additional record for the purpose of showing that the defendant was not sentenced under the defective count of the indictment.
The trial court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Judgment reversed.
Concurring Opinion
concurring specially. In order to authorize a conviction in this case, it must appear that the whisky in’ question was found in the actual or constructive possession of the defendant. There is no evidence of the defendant’s posses
The instant case is distinguishable from the cases of Brooks v. State, 66 Ga. App. 646 (19 S. E. 2d, 43), and Hill v. State, 50 Ga. App. 288, 290 (177 S. E. 826), in that in those cases the evidence was that no one lived in the houses where the whisky was found other than the defendants and their families, of which the defendants were the heads; and thus the rule in the Isom case, supra, was applicable in those cases; but, as I have shown, not applicable to the instant case. See, in thife connection, Rhoddenberry v. State, 50 Ga. App. 378 (178 S. E. 170).
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