Woods v. State

Ingram, Justice.

This is an appeal from an armed robbery conviction and life sentence received by the defendant after a jury trial in the Superior Court of Barrow County.

The defendant was indicted jointly with three other defendants for the murder and armed robbery of William Eugene Mann at the latter’s grocery store-filling station in Barrow County. Count 1 of the indictment charged the defendants with murder in that with malice aforethought defendants killed the victim by shooting him with a .22 caliber pistol. Count 2 charged the theft of the victim’s money from him with the use of the…