State v. Key

Littlejohn, Justice:

Atlas Key and Robert Tobias Thomas were convicted of armed robbery at the July 1969 term of the Court of General Sessions for York County. A motion for a new trial was overruled. They have appealed to this court alleging error on the part of the trial judge in denying the motion.

By appropriate exceptions the two appellants allege error on the part of the judge in admitting certain testimony of *92Alvin Dean Bennett concerning defendant Key’s mother, in directing witness Bennett to repeat an answer “slowly, clearly, and distinctly”, and in failing to exclude a portion of the…