18 Ga. App. 102 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1916
This case is very similar to that of Sanders v. State, 84 Ga. 317 (10 S. E. 369). Holland, like Sanders, was charged with being criminally intimate with intoxicating liquors (if we may use that expression, since the “spirit” of the law is that we “touch not, taste not, handle not” such liquors), and he seeks to review the sufficiency of the evidence upon which he was convicted, as Sanders did, by direct bill of exceptions, without a motion for a new trial. The case at bar differs from the Sanders
Judged by its past, this court has always preferred to consider cases upon the merits, and we have frequently expressed reluctance at being compelled to dismiss writs of error upon points of practice; but in the present case there is no reason for personal reluctance to even feebly protest against judicial compunction, since the evidence (as it is before us in the bill of exceptions) so overwhelmingly authorizes a conviction that it would seem that
There being no error of law complained of, but only an attempt to obtain a review of facts by direct bill of exceptions, without a motion for a new trial, the. writ of error must be
Dismissed.