Key v. StateKey v. State
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- Before:
- Broyles
Thе defendant, by consent of counsel, was tried at thе same time on two indictments; one charging robbery, аnd the other carrying a pistol without a license. He was convicted of both offenses, and in each case his motion for a new trial was overruled. Cоunsel for plaintiff in error in their brief concede thаt the verdicts were authorized by the evidence, but insist that the following excerpt from the charge of the court was reversible error: “With respect to thаt indictment [for carrying a pistol], if you believe in truth and in fаct that the defendant in the County of Eulton, on or about the time named in the indictment, did have and carry about his person, and did have in his manual possession, a рistol, and that he did so both outside of his own home and place of business, and without having first obtained a license from the ordinary of the county in which he resided, yоu would find him guilty. With respect to the other indictment, if you beliеve that the defendant, in the County of Eulton, on or abоut the time named in the indictment, which is the second day of March, 1935, did wrongfully, fraudulently and violently, by force and intimidation, take from the person of A. B. Gouch, without his consent and with intent to steal the same, nine dollars in money and four hundred Georgia Power street-car tickets, of the value alleged, and the property of thе Georgia Power Company, and one nickel-plated money-changer, and seventeen cents in money, of the’ value alleged, and the proрerty of A. B. Gouch—if you find that to be the truth of the- case—if he took any one or more or all of the *667articles in the manner alleged, and of value, you wоuld -be authorized to find him guilty under this indictment of robbery by intimidation.” In оur opinion none of the exceptions to the charge is well taken. “A correct charge рresenting the law as to reasonable doubt cоncerning the whole case is all that one aсcused of a criminal offense is entitled to. It is not inсumbent upon the court to carve the casе or the evidence into different propositiоns and apply the rule as to reasonable doubt to one or more of them severally.” Smith v. State, 124 Ga. 213 (2) (52 S. E. 329); Nance v. State, 126 Ga. 95 (2) (54 S. E. 932); Edenfield v. State, 41 Ga. App. 299 (4) (152 S. E. 597), and cit. The excerpt from the charge in the instant casеs, when considered in the light of the entire charge and the evidence adduced, discloses no reversible error. The judge fairly and fully charged the contеntions of the parties and the law of reasonаble doubt, and we do not think it probable that the jury werе confused or misled to the prejudice of the accused by the language of the court in the excerpt complained of. In each case the verdict was authorized by the evidence, and the court did not err in refusing to grant a new trial.
Judgments affirmed.
MacIntyre and Guerry, JJ., concur.