Doyle v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Evidence. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1885. Leven Doyle was indicted and found guilty of robbery. The evidence of the person charged to have been robbed was, in brief, as follows: He agreed to treat the defendant to a drink, and took out his pocket-book to pay for it. He had' the book in one hand and in the other a rubber strap which he took from around it.
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Criminal Law. Evidence. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. October Term, 1885. Leven Doyle was indicted and found guilty of robbery. The evidence of the person charged to have been robbed was, in brief, as follows: He agreed to treat the defendant to a drink, and took out his pocket-book to pay for it. He had' the book in one hand and in the other a rubber strap which he took from around it. In the book was a $5 bill with one end sticking out. The defendant extracted it with a quick jerk and passed it to a confederate, who made off with it. There was no…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Doyle was indicted,' tried and found guilty of robbery and was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The indictment charged him, in three separate counts, with robbery, with larceny from the person of the prosecutor, and with cheating and swindling. The amount alleged to have been stolen was five dollars in United States currency. Upon his arraignment and before pleading to the merits, he demurred specially to the indictment, upon the ground that there was a misjoinder of offences in the different counts in the indictment, one being for a felony and the others for…
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