Merritt v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Merritt v. State

232 S.E.2d 924, 238 Ga. 331, 1977 Ga. LEXIS 1018

CourtSupreme Court of Georgia

DecidedFebruary 8, 1977

Docket31653

StatusPublished

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Merritt v. State, 232 S.E.2d 924, 238 Ga. 331, 1977 Ga. LEXIS 1018 (Ga. 1977).

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Opinion

Gunter, Justice.

Appellant was convicted for having committed armed robbery, and he has appealed.

The one enumerated error in'this court is: "The trial court committed reversible error by charging the jury that an alleged concealment on the part of appellant raised an inference of guilt; such charge being unsupported by the evidence and violative of appellant’s right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to. the Constitution of the United States.”

We have reviewed the transcript of evidence and-the entire charge of the court. The charge on concealment was justified by the evidence, and the charge on concealment did.not violate appellant’s due process rights.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur. Jack H. Affleck, for appellant. Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, B. Thomas Cook, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Daryl A. Robinson, for appellee.

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