Mika v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

1. These eases, which involve convictions under one verdict in the same trial, and with the same exceptions, are decided together.

2. The Supreme Court, rather than the Court of Appeals, has jurisdiction of these writs of error under an indictment for robbery by open force and violence (Ga. L. 1937, pp. 490, 491; Code Supp., § 26-2502), since the statute imposes the death penalty unless the jury shall recommend mercy as provided, and the constitution gives exclusive jurisdiction to this court of writs of error in all “cases of conviction of a capital felony.” Code, § 2-3005.…