State v. Winston

MILLER, Chief Justice:

In this' criminal appeal from a sixty-year sentence for aggravated or armed robbery, 1 the defendant contends that his vehicle was subject to an illegal search. He maintains that he had a bona fide claim of right to regain the property taken and that the trial court gave erroneous instructions on the law in this area. He also contends the trial court erred in failing to give him a short postponement during the trial to procure a subpoenaed witness to bolster his bona fide defense claim. Finally, he claims that the trial court’s sentence of sixty years was…