Graves v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Wilson Dennis Graves was convicted of armed robbery in the hijack of an Adel Grocery Company truck in Orilla. On appeal he enumerates error on general grounds, on the trial court’s refusal to direct a verdict of acquittal for fatal variance in the indictment and proof, and on errors in admitting his statement of confession. Held:

1. Appellant contends the evidence was insufficient to authorize the verdict of guilty, under OCGA § 16-2-20 as to commission of a crime, essentially because the uncontradicted evidence in the case was that not he but his co-actor, Sheffield,…