Porter v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Judge.
Jerry Lee Porter and Billy Ray Keegan were convicted of armed robbery and each sentenced to life imprisonment. They bring this appeal enumerating 16 alleged errors. Held:
1. In their first enumeration of error, appellants raise the general grounds. In substance, the evidence shows that the appellants unlawfully entered a home in Gainesville for the purpose of committing a burglary. During the course of the burglary, Keegan, with stolen property in his hands, encountered an occupant of the house and forced the occupant into submission by pointing a pistol at him and threatening…
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