Gazaway v. State

Quillian, Judge.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted for the crime of larceny from the person. Her motion for new trial was overruled and appeal taken. The defendant enumerates as error the overruling of her motion for new trial, the overruling of her motion for directed verdict and the trial judge’s charge on conspiracy. Held:

1. There is now no statutory authority for the direction of a verdict in a criminal case. Hence, the enumeration of error predicated on the refusal to direct a verdict of not guilty shows no error. Pritchard v. State, 224 Ga. 776, 779 (164 SE2d 808); Casey v.…