48 Ga. App. 672 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1934
Eoy Hollis was convicted of the crime of robbery, the jury’s verdict being as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of robbery by intimidation and recommend that he be punished as for a misdemeanor.” The act of 1919 (Ga. L. 1919, p. 387, Michie’s Penal Code (1936), § 1060(1)), provides that “The jury in their verdict on the trial of all cases of felony not punishable by life imprisonment shall prescribe a minimum and ■maximum term, which shall be within the minimum and maximum prescribed by law as the punishment for said crime, and the judge in imposing the sentence shall commit said convicted person to the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict of the jury. . .” The Penal Code of 1910, § 150, prescribes that robbery by intimidation
The evidence abundantly supports the verdict, and for no reason assigned should the case be returned for a trial upon its merits. However, since it does clearly appear from the record that the sentence imposed is illegal and void for the reason that it does not follow the verdict, the judgment is affirmed with direction that the defendant be taken before the proper court in order that a legal sentence in accordance with the law above stated may be imposed upon him. Screen v. State, 107 Ga. 715 (33 S. E. 393); Morris v. Clark, supra; Littlejohn v. Stells, 123 Ga. 427 (4), 430 (51 S. E. 390).
Judgment affirmed, with direction.