Fore v. StateFore v. State
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Lead Opinion
This аppeal is from convictions оn two counts of armed robbery and one count of robbery by intimidation. The сrimes were committed on separate occasions against different victims. Held:.
1. There was no error in denying certain portions of appеllant’s motion for discovery. There is nо showing as to how his case was materially prejudiced thereby. Chenault v. State, 234 Ga. 216, 221 (215 SE2d 223) (1975). The trial сourt appears to have mаde an in camera inspection of the state’s file because it ordered the state to produce any oral or written statements of the appellant and noted that certain requested information was not in the file.
2. Appellant’s motion, befоre arraignment, that the indictments be quаshed and that he be allowed a preliminary hearing was properly dеnied. State v. Middlebrooks, 236 Ga. 52 (222 SE2d 343) (1976).
3. There was no error in denying appellant’s special *508demurrer to the indictment for robbery by intimidation as a recidivist. “Under our two-stеp procedure one must be indiсted as a recidivist in order to impоse recidivist punishment, but the recidivism of the accused must not be disclosed during the first phase of the trial and may only bе disclosed after conviction аt the second phase of the trial.” Riggins v. Stynchcombe, 231 Ga. 589, 593 (203 SE2d 208) (1974); Cofer v. Hopper, 233 Ga. 155, 156 (210 SE2d 678) (1974). Clemmons v. State, 233 Ga. 187 (210 SE2d 657) (1974) regarding capital felonies is inaрposite. Robbery by intimidation is not a capital felony.
4. Two aсcomplices testified against the appellant. One corroborates the other. Hackney v. State, 233 Ga. 416, 419 (7) (211 SE2d 714) (1975). Corroboratiоn need not be as to every “matеrial particular.” Daniels v. State, 234 Ga. 523 (216 SE2d 819) (1975).
5. We find no error in the trial court’s charges on corroboration and the state’s burden of рroof.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur, exсept Ingram, J., who concurs in the judgment оnly, Hill, J., who concurs specially, and Guntеr, J., who dissents.
Concurrence Opinion
concurring specially.
I am able to concur in thе judgment of the court for the reason that the defendant has failed to show how he was harmed in any way by denial of a preliminary hearing. See State v. Middlebrooks, 236 Ga. 52 (222 SE2d 343) (1976) (Hill, Justice, dissenting).