Case Name: REVERE v. THE STATE; SPENCE v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1975-11-26
Citations: 136 Ga. App. 798
Docket Number: 51241; 51242
Parties: REVERE v. THE STATE. SPENCE v. THE STATE.
Judges: Deen, P. J., concurs. Evans, J., concurs specially.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 136
Pages: 798–799

Head Matter:
51241.
REVERE v. THE STATE. SPENCE v. THE STATE.
51242.
Submitted September 29, 1975
Decided November 26, 1975.
Hudson John Myers, for appellants.
Edward E. McGarity, District Attorney, for appellee.

Opinion:
Stolz, Judge.
This is an appeal from the conviction of defendants Revere and Spence for theft by taking.
1. The defendants enumerate as error the denial of the right to twenty peremptory challenges to prospective jurors. The record discloses that the trial court judge granted the defendants twenty strikes and offered to grant them an additional five strikes apiece. Code Ann. § 27-2101 provides in part: "When two or more defendants are tried jointly for a crime or offense said defendants shall be entitled to the same number of strikes as a single defendant if tried separately." Thus, the defendants were entitled to twenty, not forty, strikes. This enumeration of error is without merit.
2. The evidence was sufficient to support the verdict.
3. The remaining enumerations of error are without merit.
Judgment affirmed.
Deen, P. J., concurs. Evans, J., concurs specially.