State v. Brown

This is a criminal indictment charging the defendant with armed robbery. It was tried to a superior court justice sitting with a jury and resulted in the defendant’s conviction. The case is before us on his bill of exceptions, but he presses only his exception to a certain evidentiary ruling and to the denial of his motion for a new trial. His other exceptions are expressly waived.

The evidence establishes that on the evening of April 19, 1959 Turner Buchanan, a merchant seaman, was a patron of the Celebrity Club, a nightclub then located on Randall street in the city of Providence. Sometime…