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Gordon v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia
Sep 27, 1977
239 S.E.2d 5 (Ga. 1977)

Opinion

32624.

SUBMITTED AUGUST 5, 1977.

DECIDED SEPTEMBER 27, 1977.

Armed robbery. Floyd Superior Court. Before Judge Frazier.

Ronald G. Shedd, C. Ronald Patton, for appellant.

Jimmy Lee Gordon, pro se. F. Larry Salmon, District Attorney, Wallace W. Rogers, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, for appellee.


Appellant was convicted of armed robbery, sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals.

1. The general grounds are without merit. The state produced witnesses who identified the appellant as the robber who at gunpoint committed the robbery. The jury chose to believe the state's witnesses rather than the alibi witnesses of the appellant.

2. The trial court did not err in allowing a state's witness, over objection, to testify what she herself told others at the time of the robbery concerning the resemblance that the robber bore to a person who had come to the office about a week prior to the robbery. Holbrook v. State, 126 Ga. App. 569 ( 191 S.E.2d 348) (1972).

Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur.


SUBMITTED AUGUST 5, 1977 — DECIDED SEPTEMBER 27, 1977.


Summaries of

Gordon v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia
Sep 27, 1977
239 S.E.2d 5 (Ga. 1977)
Case details for

Gordon v. State

Case Details

Full title:GORDON v. THE STATE

Court:Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: Sep 27, 1977

Citations

239 S.E.2d 5 (Ga. 1977)
239 S.E.2d 5