State v. McClain

BARHAM, Justice. ■

Walter Ronald McClain and James McBroom were jointly charged in a bill of information with armed robbery. McBroom pleaded guilty. McClain was later tried, convicted as charged, and sentenced to-nine years’ imprisonment at hard labor. He has appealed, relying for reversal on two bills of exception.

Bill of Exception No. 1 was reserved to the admission of testimony of Clyde R. Hinton, a State’s witness, who related a conversation and occurrences in a hotel room a short time after the robbery while he, McBroom, and the defendant McClain were all present. The witness testified…