Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Carley, Judge.
Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of three counts of robbery by intimidation. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered on the jury’s verdicts.
Appellant’s sole enumeration of error is based upon the following remark, which was made during the State’s closing argument: “But don’t you imagine that if there were somebody to account for where [appellant] was when these robberies took place that they would be here?” Appellant moved for a mistrial, on the ground that this remark was an impermissible comment on his constitutional and statutory…
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