Honea v. State

Hutcheson, Justice.

Marvin Honea, Sam Daniel, and S. W. Sisk, alias W. C. Shaw, were jointly indicted for the offense of murder. Honea was placed on trial, and was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. His motion for new trial was Overruled, and he excepted.

The first and second special grounds of the motion for new trial complain of the. admission, over timely objection, of evidence tending to show that the defendant, with others, engaged in a “hold-up” and robbery at Winder, Georgia, and a similar hold-up and robbery near the same place at a later date, each being staged in a manner…