Brown v. City of Atlanta

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Brown v. City of Atlanta

76 S.E. 72, 11 Ga. App. 755, 1912 Ga. App. LEXIS 154

Court of Appeals of Georgia·Decided October 22, 1912·No. 4320·Published·Cited by 1 cases

Opinion

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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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.

Brown v. City of Atlanta, 76 S.E. 72, 11 Ga. App. 755, 1912 Ga. App. LEXIS 154 (Ga. Ct. App. 1912).

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