Davis v. State

BARRETT, Commissioner.

On October 24, 1955, Willie B. Davis entered pleas of guilty to seven counts of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts and to twenty years’ imprisonment on five counts, the sentences to run concurrently. The details of the original offenses are obscure but it appears from the meager record here that in the course of one of the robberies someone was killed and one of Davis’ fellow-robbers, one of the Burnetts, was tried and sentenced to be executed but his sentence was commuted to life…