Ingram v. State
Ingram v. State
Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted in the Superior Court of Bibb County for armed robbery and received a 12-year sentence. His motion for new trial, based solely upon the general grounds, was overruled. He appeals and enumerates as error that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict.
The state introduced evidence to show that appellant entered a food store in Macon, Georgia, and at gun point ordered the store manager and another store employee to hand over all the money in the cash registers containing approximately $250. He then ordered the manager, the employee, and two customers into a back room where he checked the store safe which happened to be empty. He then fled and was apprehended several hours later as the result of a shooting incident in a Macon bar.
The store manager, the store employee, and one of the two customers present in the store at the time of the
Although the testimony of some of the witnesses may have been somewhat vague concerning some details of the robbery and in one instance may have been conflicting, it is the duty of this court "to determine whether the verdict as rendered can be sustained under any reasonable view taken of the proofs submitted to the jury.” Ingram v. State, 204 Ga. 164, 184 (48 SE2d 891). The evidence in this case was sufficient to authorize the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.
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