Pickler v. State

Quillian, Justice.

1. An indictment which charges the accused in one count with robbery by force and robbery by use of an offensive weapon accuses him not of separate offenses but of different grades or species of the same offense, and is not subject to demurrer on the ground of duplicity. Long v. State, 12 Ga. 293, 314; Lampkin v. State, 87 Ga. 516 (2) (13 SE 523).

2. The trial judge in the present case charged the jury: “Gentlemen, under the law of this State, the defendant has a right to make a statement if he sees fit to do so. That statement shall not be under oath and the jury trying the…