Jones v. State

Full title: JONES v. THE STATE

Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia

Date published: Jun 14, 1966

149 S.E.2d 740 (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)

149 S.E.2d 740

Opinion

42100.

SUBMITTED JUNE 8, 1966.

DECIDED JUNE 14, 1966.

Making liquor. Chattooga Superior Court. Before Judge Fariss.

Cook Palmour, A. Cecil Palmour, for appellant.

Earl B. Self, Solicitor General, for appellee.

HALL, Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction for manufacturing alcoholic liquors, and enumerates as error the overruling of a ground of his motion for new trial contending that the evidence did not authorize the court's charge to the jury on the subject of confessions.

The testimony of a deputy sheriff (elicited by the defendant on cross examination) that the defendant had told him that "he was operating the still . . . that he was going to try to beat the rap of manufacturing, he didn't, he was guilty, but he was going to try his best to beat it," authorized the charge. Brown v. State, 83 Ga. App. 650, 651 ( 64 S.E.2d 313); James v. State, 86 Ga. App. 282 ( 71 S.E.2d 568); accord Owens v. State, 120 Ga. 296, 299 ( 48 S.E. 21).

Judgment affirmed. Nichols, P. J., and Deen, J., concur.

SUBMITTED JUNE 8, 1966 — DECIDED JUNE 14, 1966.