Case ID: ga-app_133/html/0323-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

49873.
    MARTIN v. THE STATE.
    Submitted November 5, 1974
    Decided November 14, 1974.
    
      Jack Dorsey, for appellant.
    
      Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, J. Melvin England, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
   Pannell, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was charged with robbery by intimidation, tried and convicted. His motion for new trial on the general grounds was overruled and he appealed to this court. Held:

The evidence showed that the defendant and two others entered a store, and while the others were crawling toward a clothing rack, defendant, with his hand in his coat pocket, walked over to a clerk and when within a few feet of her, said: "Don’t you move.” This action on the part of the defendant frightened the clerk and kept her from interfering. The other two then began to wrap up clothes and when another employee entered, the three left with defendant helping carry the clothes out. This evidence was sufficient to authorize a conviction of robbery by intimidation. See, Code § 26-1901; also, Long v. State, 12 Ga. 293, 321.

Judgment affirmed.

Evans and Webb, JJ, concur.