COOPER v. STATE

54200.

143 Ga. App. 246 (1977)

237 S.E.2d 715

COOPER v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. L. Lomenick, Jr., William Ralph Hill, Jr., for appellant.

William M. Campbell, District Attorney, Bruce Hinshelwood, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


QUILLIAN, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction of burglary and robbery. He asserts the court erred in failing to charge, without request, the law of alibi. Held:

"Alibi, as a defense, involves the impossibility of the accused's presence at the scene of the offense at the time of its commission; and the range of the evidence, in respect to time and place, must be such as reasonably to exclude the possibility of presence." Code §...

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