State v. Wheeler

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendants first assign error to entry of judgment for two counts of armed robbery, contending that the evidence supports only a single conviction of armed robbery. The State’s evidence tended to show that defendants were armed with rifles when they entered the home of Frank and Mattie Brown. The Browns, both eighty years old, had been married for approximately 60 years at the time of the crime. While defendant Wheeler held the Browns at gunpoint, defendant Hammett wandered through the house, during which time Hammett drank some cough syrup that had been prescribed for Mrs.…