Legal Opinion
Burns v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 22, 1940No. 13318PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Justice.
Pee Wee Burns was convicted of tbe offense of robbery by force, alleged to have been committed upon the person of Pete Modena in Bibb County, Georgia, on July 17, 1936. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted. Error is assigned also upon exceptions pendente lite taken by the defendant to several antecedent rulings.
At the date of the alleged offense, robbery by force was not a capital felony, and the writ of error was not made returnable to the Supreme Court upon any theory relating to the nature of the offense. Code, § 26-2502; Ga. L. 1937, p. 490. It is the…
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