Head v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Ingram, Justice.
This is a criminal case involving convictions in Fulton Superior Court for armed robbery, carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a pistol without a license. Appellant received sentences totaling 20 years and 24 months for the three offenses and, after his motion for a new trial was overruled in the trial court, he filed this appeal.
The state’s case rested primarily upon the victim’s identification of appellant at a lineup as one of several people who robbed her at gunpoint in her home. Appellant’s defense, corroborated by a number of witnesses, was that of alibi. The trial…
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