SALEM v. STATE

26691.

228 Ga. 186 (1971)

184 S.E.2d 650

SALEM v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharpe, Sharpe, Hartley & Newton, T. Malone Sharpe, for appellant.

Robert W. Reynolds, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Dorothy T. Beasley, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.


NICHOLS, Justice.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of two charges of robbery with an offensive weapon. A motion for new trial was thereafter overruled and the present appeal filed. Held:

1. One enumeration of error raises questions as to the validity of the indictments since they both allegedly grew out of the same transaction, to wit: robbery by use of an offensive weapon of two persons at the same time.

"A defendant may be tried...

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