Watson v. State, 27358
| Decision Date | 05 October 1972 |
| Docket Number | No. 27358,27358 |
| Citation | 192 S.E.2d 897,229 Ga. 573 |
| Parties | Clarence WATSON v. The STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court
1. The trial court did not err in failing to charge on robbery by intimidation.
2. The evidence authorized the verdict of guilty.
Glenn Zell, Atlanta, for appellant.
Lewis R. Slaton, Dist. Atty., Joseph J. Drolet, Joel M. Feldman, Morris H. Rosenberg, Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Courtney Wilder Stanton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas W. Greene, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for appellee.
Clarence Watson appeals from his conviction of armed robbery and sentence of eleven years confinement. He was indicted by the grand jury of Fulton County and was tried in the superior court of that county.
The appellant asserts two enumerations of error: (1) the failure 'to charge robbery by intimidation as it was demanded by the evidence and as a matter of law it was a lesser included offense . . .' and (2) overruling his motion for new trial as amended.
1. The Criminal Code of Georgia provides in essential part that Code Ann. § 26-1902 (Ga.L.1968, pp. 1294, 1298; 1969, p. 810).
The evidence adduced upon the trial in this case, insofar as necessary to recite here, was as follows. Several employees of a bank and two of its customers testified that a man, identified as the defendant, went to a teller's cage, handed his check to the teller with the words 'hold-up' written thereon. The teller stated that the appellant took a pistol from his coat pocket, showed it to her, and told her 'Do as you are told and you won't get hurt.' Although he did not point it at her he kept the gun at his chest during the hold-up. A handwriting expert swore that in his opinion the words 'hold-up' were written by the appellant, and two officers of the Police ID Bureau identified seven fingerprints taken from the check as those of the appellant. Upon the trial the appellant offered no evidence and made an unsworn statement denying his presence at the robbery.
The evidence referred to above authorized a conviction of armed robbery as defined in Code Ann. § 26-1902, supra, but did...
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