Haas v. State

OPINION

MITCHELL, Judge.

Jack Ronald Haas, who will be referred to as the defendant or by name, was convicted on May 12, 1969, in the Criminal Court of Davidson County, Tennessee, of robbery accomplished by the use of a deadly weapon, and his punishment fixed by the jury at twenty years in the State Penitentiary, upon which the presiding judge, Honorable John L. Draper, pronounced judgment.

After the motion for a new trial was overruled an appeal was perfected to this Court.

The facts, evidently accepted by the jury, were as follows:

On December 28, 1968, about 10:00 P.M. Harry Neblett, a clerk,…