Holcomb v. State, 27803
Decision Date | 25 April 1973 |
Docket Number | No. 27803,27803 |
Citation | 198 S.E.2d 179,230 Ga. 525 |
Parties | James R. HOLCOMB v. The STATE. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court
The question certified by the Court of Appeals is answered in the affirmative.
Glenn Zell, Atlanta, for appellant.
Lewis R. Slaton, Dist. Atty., Atlanta, for appellee.
The Court of Appeals has requested instructions from this Court upon the following question:
'Where the evidence establishes that an accused committed a robbery by the use of an offensive weapon may he or his co-conspirator be convicted of the 'lesser included offense' of robbery by intimidation?
Code Ann. § 26-1901 provides: Ga.L.1968, pp. 1249, 1298.
Code Ann. § 26-1902 provides: Ga.L.1968, pp. 1249, 1298; Ga.L.1969, p. 810.
In Wilson v. State, 229 Ga. 224(3), 190 S.E.2d 78; Hill v. State, 229 Ga. 307, 191 S.E.2d 58, supra; Watson v. State, 229 Ga. 573, 574(1), 192 S.E.2d 897, supra; and Tenney v. State, 230 Ga. 49, 195 S.E.2d 410, supra; the question for determination by this court was whether evidence which authorized a conviction of armed robbery required a charge to the jury on robbery by intimidation. In each of the cases this court stated that it was not error to fail to charge on robbery by intimidation since the evidence would not authorize a conviction of that offense. After further consideration of Cdoe Ann. § 26-1902, we are unanimously of the opinion that we were in error in these decisions in holding that the evidence would not authorize a conviction of robbery by intimidation. Rather, we should have held that the failure to charge on robbery by intimidation was not error because the evidence did...
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