Ross v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

On the trial for the offense of robbery by force (Code, § 36-2502) the judge charged the jury that “something has been said about the fact that the money has been paid to Mrs. King” (the prosecutrix, a sister of the defendant). “In that connection I charge you that if you should find that the offense was committed, as charged in the bill of indictment, that then the repayment of the money by the defendant or by some one for him would not affect the crime, if you find that a crime was committed, because our law provides that” the judge then quoting Code sections…