Parker v. Commonwealth

CAMMACK, Justice.

George Parker was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of robbery. On this appeal he is insisting that the judgment should be reversed because the lower court erred in refusing td grant him a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence.

The prosecuting witness, Arnold Whitt, said that, while he, Parker and others were lodged in the 'Montgomery County jail, Parker and an unidentified person beat him and robbed him of a 17 jewel Benrus watch. Whitt’s father and Frankie Martin, who were also in jail at the time of the alleged offense, corroborated Whitt’s…