Watts v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant-defendant guilty of robbery as charged in an indictment, to which he had pleaded not guilty, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years. The trial court rendered judgment and sentence accordingly, and this appeal was taken therefrom.

According to the evidence in the case, the office of Fairfield Finance Company, Inc., a corporation, doing business as BelAir Finance Company in Birmingham, Alabama, was robbed by two armed men.

Two employees and the office manager positively identified…