McCoy v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Accessory. Verdict. Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Hopkins.' Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1873. Charles McCoy was jointly indicted with Clem Harris, Dred Darden and Floyd Reed, for the offense of larceny from the person, alleged to have been committed upon the person of C. V. Furlow, on November 29th, 1873. He was separately tried. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty as an accessory after the fact.
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Criminal law. Accessory. Verdict. Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Hopkins.' Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1873. Charles McCoy was jointly indicted with Clem Harris, Dred Darden and Floyd Reed, for the offense of larceny from the person, alleged to have been committed upon the person of C. V. Furlow, on November 29th, 1873. He was separately tried. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty as an accessory after the fact. The court refused to allow the verdict to be received, and instructed them that it wras not in form, and that if they found a verdict in…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. The defendant was jointly indicted with three others for larceny from the person. The jury first came in with a verdict finding the defendant “guilty as accessory after the fact.” The court directed them to return to their room, and if they found a verdict it must be guilty or not guilty. The verdict was rightly rejected by the court, because it was an illegal verdict under the indictment, as will be seen presently.
2. The verdict being an illegal one, the court had the power, and it was its duty to reject it, and to give the directions that were given: Williams vs. The State,…
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