Georgia Court Of Appeals, (May 22, 1985)
Docket number: 69877
DECIDED
MCMURRAY, Presiding Judge. - DECIDED
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Judgment affirmed. Banke, C. J., and Benham, J., concur.

Supreme Court of Georgia - LOWE v. THE STATE., 253 Ga. 308, 319 S.E.2.d 834
Supreme Court of Georgia - RANGER v. THE STATE., 249 Ga. 315, 290 S.E.2.d 63
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Allison v. The State., 184 Ga. App. 294, 361 S.E.2d 271 (1987)
The defendant was convicted of robbery by sudden snatching and now appeals from the trial court's denial of his motion for new trial. Held:1. In his first enumeration of error the defendant argues that the weight of the evidence is contrary to the verdict. The State's evidence presented at trial was as follows: On October 25, 1983, Mary Costello was walking with two gentlemen, Robert Olsen and Tom Standard, in downtown Macon at approximately 10:00 p.m., when her pocketbook was snatched by a man who struck her from behind. Robert Olsen chased the assailant and identified him as a black man wearing a white shirt, shorts and running shoes. Another witness, Ralph Murphy, testified that on the night of the crime he observed the victim and two men walking together down the street and about five or ten minutes after they had passed he heard a scream and saw a black male, who he identified as looking very much like the defendant, being chased by a man. Murphy testified that the assailant was carrying a woman's pocketbook which he identified as the victim's. Later that evening, the defendant was arrested by the Macon police after he was seen walking from an area where Ms. Costello's pocketbook was found. The police arrested the defendant because he fit the description of the assailant given by several witnesses to the crime. Upon being searched, $13.57 in cash and a medical alert tag were found in the defendant's pocket. The victim testified that she had between $11 and $14 in her pocketbook when it was stolen and she identified the medical alert tag as the one she had in her pocketbook on the night in question. The victim recognized the medical alert tag because it indicated that she was allergic to penicillin and she had carried that particular medical alert tag with her for over fifteen years. From these facts and other evidence revealed after a careful review of the transcript, we conclude that the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to upholding the verdict, is more than sufficient to convince any rational juror of the defendant's guilt of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. Dorsey v. State,
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