Sheppard v. State

W. J. HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, from which judgment of the court he appeals.

The State’s testimony tended to show that the prosecuting witness, Herman Bates, was in his home, in one of the bedrooms watching television on the night of August 30, 1971, when two men appeared, wrapped in some sort of material similar to bed sheeting with what appeared to be pillow slips over their heads with eyeholes for them to see through; one was armed with a knife, the other with what appeared to be either a sawed-off…