Hollis v. State

Eoy Hollis was convicted of the crime of robbery, the jury’s verdict being as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of robbery by intimidation and recommend that he be punished as for a misdemeanor.” The act of 1919 (Ga. L. 1919, p. 387, Michie’s Penal Code (1936), § 1060(1)), provides that “The jury in their verdict on the trial of all cases of felony not punishable by life imprisonment shall prescribe a minimum and ■maximum term, which shall be within the minimum and maximum prescribed by law as the punishment for said crime, and the judge in imposing the sentence shall commit…