Legal Opinion

Sparks v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 9, 1952No. 17876Published

1Opinion of the Court

209 Ga. 250 (1952)

71 S.E.2d 608

SPARKS

v.

THE STATE.

17876.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Submitted May 12, 1952.

Decided June 9, 1952.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1952.

Harbin M. King and John D. Edge, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, W. Dan Greer and Warren Akin, Solicitor-General, contra.

CANDLER, Justice.

A grand jury in Gordon County Superior Court charged Ludd Sparks with robbery. The indictment in substance alleges that he did, on July 9, 1951, in Gordon County, Georgia, unlawfully, wrongfully, fraudulently, and violently, by force and intimidation, take $580 from the person of J.…

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2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Wall v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922
  2. Kinnebrew v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
  3. Commonwealth v. GettiganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
  4. Luke v. CannonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
  5. Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892

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