Benford v. State

An indictment can properly contain a count for burglary and one for receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen when the articles were knowingly received from the person who committed the burglary and were taken from the store at the time it was burglarized. In Williams v. State, 72 Ga. 180, it is held that “Different counts charging offenses of the same nature may be joined in one indictment.” Mitchell v. State, 6 Ga. App. 554 (1). Burglary and receiving the fruits of the burglary are of the same nature. Each is a felony, and in each the same quantum of punishment would follow a…