Case ID: ga_72/html/0200-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Beal vs. The State of Georgia.
    1. There is ample evidence to convict the defendant of burglary, if the boy twelve years old (a witness) was not an accomplice. If coerced by fear of life or limb, he could not be an accomplice, because he could not commit a crime when so coerced. Code, §4303.
    2. The court submitted the issue on that question as fairly for the defendant as could be asked by him, and the jury found that he was so coerced, under evidence enough to sustain the finding, the tender years of the boy being considered. Code, §§4294, 4295 ; 32 Ga., 496.
    Judgment affirmed.
    October 2, 1883.
    (Head-notes by tbe court.)
   Jackson, Chief Justice.