¶1Where the only proof that one was in possession of an article prohibited by law (whisky) 'in Whitfield County, *624Georgia, .was by the testimony of a police officer that “I am a police officer in the City of Dalton. . . I was collecting street taxes at- that time, and . . I went over there [to the defendant’s house and found liquor],” there is no proof that the possession was in Whitfield County. Therefore the judgment is reversed for the reason that the State failed to sufficiently establish the venue. Gibson v. State, 52 Ga. App. 297(183 S. E. 83), and cit.; Whitfield v. State, 51 Ga. App. 439 (180 S. E. 630); Moye v. State, 65 Ga. 754; Cooper v. State, 106 Ga. 119 (2) (32 S. E. 23). Judgment reversed.
60 Ga. App. 623
Smith v. State
Decided September 19, 1939
Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1939-09-19
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1971
1 state decisions
Relies on Cooper v. State · Moye v. State · Whitfield v. State
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1939-09-19
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