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127 Ga. 43

Hunter v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 11, 1906

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1906-12-11

<p>Accusation of riot. Before Judge Hammond. City court of Griffin. October 12, 1906.</p>

Relies on Coney v. State · Dixon v. State · Tripp v. State

Decided 1906-12-11

Eish, O. J.

¶1To constitute the offense of riot there must be a common intent to commit the act constituting the alleged riotous conduct. Accordingly, it was error requiring the grant of a new trial for the court, upon the trial of two persons charged with this offense, to instruct the jury that if the defendants “united, with or without a common intent, in doing an unlawful act of violence, the acts and words of each one while the thing [was] in progress [became] the acts and words of the other one engaged therein.” Dixon v. State, 105 Ga. 787, and cit.; Tripp v. State, 109 Ga. 489; Coney v. State, 113 Ga. 1060.

¶2Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.
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