Smith v. State

173 Ga. App. 728 (1985)

327 S.E.2d 839

SMITH

v.

THE STATE.

69003.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided March 8, 1985.

Reuben M. Word, for appellant.

Frank C. Winn, District Attorney, J. David McDade, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge.

The appellant Christopher David Smith, now fourteen years old, appeals the superior court's denial of his plea in bar to his trial for the capital offense of armed robbery. (He was tried and found guilty of the offense.) The plea is grounded in the contention that double jeopardy attached when charges against Smith for motor vehicle theft…