Clements v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Robbery. Criminal law. Charge of court. Verdict. Before Judge Atkinson. Coffee superior court. April term, 1889. Indictment for robbery, one count charging its commission by intimidation, the other by force. The jury found the defendants guilty on the latter count.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
1. William and Charles Clements were indicted, tried and convicted of robbery. They made a motion for a new trial upon several grounds, which was overruled by the court, and they excepted. The evidence as to the robbery was, in substance, as follows : Between seven and eight o’clock on the evening of January 19th, 1888, Bird went into his smoke-house to weigh out rations for his hands. While he was in there, a man ran up and said that the first one who put his head out, he would shoot it off; said that they were after a murderer that had killed four men in Dooly county, and…
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