MERRITT v. STATE

31653.

238 Ga. 331 (1977)

232 S.E.2d 924

MERRITT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 8, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.


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...

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