Legal Opinion

Allen v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 28, 1976No. 30463Published

1Opinion of the Court

Gunter, Justice.

Appellant, through the habeas corpus route, was granted an out-of-time appeal of his 1973 conviction for armed robbery. See Allen v. Hopper, 234 Ga. 52 (214 SE2d 508) (1975).

Appellant has enumerated as error the denial of the general grounds of his motion for a new trial and the denial of his motion for a continuance of his case made at the beginning of his trial.

A review of the transcript shows that the appellant admitted at his trial that he committed robbery. His contention here is that he did not use a weapon in committing the robbery, and that he was therefore not guilty…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Allen v. HopperSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975

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