Thompson v. State

The indictment in this case charges that on March 14, 1931, in Pulton county, Georgia, Golson Hook, Spencer Dempsey, and John Thompson did, “by force and intimidation, take from the person of Ed. Whidby, without his consent and with intent to steal the same, sixteen dollars and ninety-five cents, . . the property of the said Ed. Whidby. . .” Thompson was convicted, and he excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

Ed. Whidby testified, in substance, that on March 14, 1931, he was working at a parking-lot in Atlanta, Pulton county, Georgia-; that immediately after one L. B. Hunter…