Johnson v. State

458 S.W.2d 409 (1970)

William Lloyd JOHNSON, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. 5524.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 12, 1970.

Warner, Warner, Ragon & Smith and Troy R. Douglas, Ft. Smith, for appellant.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Sam Gibson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

HOLT, Justice.

Appellant was charged by information with the crime of robbery and was convicted of that charge by a jury which fixed his punishment at fifteen years in the penitentiary. Since the evidence disclosed that appellant used a firearm in the commission of the robbery, the trial court imposed upon…