Johnson v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Judge.

Appellant, Willard Johnson, was convicted of armed robbery and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. In seeking to reverse the judgment he insists the court erred: 1. In the admission and rejection of evidence; 2. in permitting improper argument by .the Commonwealth Attorney; 3. in instructing the jury.

Willard and three companions, William Johnson, Lee Alva Dunn and Tony White, had been drinking at Gay’s Tavern in Louisville on Saturday night, February 4, 1956. Around midnight the four of them got into William Johnson’s car, drove six or seven miles to Hudson’s Filling…