Kersey v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

This is a companion case to that of Lynch v. State, ante, p. 325. The evidence and the defendant’s statement disclose an agreement between the defendant, George Kersey, and one Thomas Lynch to rob someone in order to replenish their diminishing funds; and, as stated in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error, the record discloses that the defendant Kersey, along with Lynch, rode out on the Ogeechee Road, near Dead Man’s Curve, in Chatham County, Georgia, and stopped a truck coming towards Savannah, and told the truck driver (the deceased) to get out of the truck and…