Legal Opinion
Watkins v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 1976No. 31074PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ingram, Justice.
Appellant Earnest Watkins prosecutes this appeal from his convictions by a jury of armed robbery and simple battery in Coweta Superior Court. He received concurrent sentences of 20 years for the armed robbery and 12 months for the battery offense. We find harmful error in one of the enumerations of error urged in this appeal and reverse the trial court’s judgment denying a new trial.
The crimes were committed in the late morning of August 25, 1975, while the victim, a Coweta County Deputy Sheriff, was patrolling a rural area of the county. The deputy testified that after he had…
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