Legal Opinion

McKibben v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 18, 1939No. 12651PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Jenkins, Justice.

On the issue of identity, under the testimony of a witness who positively identified the defendant on trial as having been present and participating with the other two jointly indicted defendants in an armed robbery, and other testimony as to the similarity of his appearance to the person seen as a participant, the verdict of guilty was authorized. See Laminack v. State, 187 Ga. 648 (1 S. E. 2d), with different special grounds, but with similar evidence against a separately tried codefendant as to the crime and identification.

Hnder testimony describing one of the pistols used…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Frank v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1914
  2. Sarah v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1859
  3. Swain v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1926
  4. Lively v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1934
  5. Yancy v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1931

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Hyde v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943
  2. Commonwealth v. ParrottaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
  3. Fulford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1965
  4. Purvis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
  5. Coffee v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1973

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