Hammitt v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendants Hammitt and Crowder were tried jointly and convicted by a jury. They were each sentenced pursuant to merger of two counts of robbery with two counts of armed robbery for the same offenses. OCGA §§ 16-8-40; 16-8-41. The robberies were the joint enterprise of defendants, who took clothing from two youths at knife-point in an alley late at night.

The appeals are consolidated for review and decision because the issues are the same in that Crowder has adopted the enumerations of error and brief of Hammitt. The first enumeration is that the court erred in refusing to grant…