Keel v. State

The appellant was the defendant in the trial court. He had been charged with robbery, pleaded not guilty, and on 23 January 1970 was tried by a jury and found guilty. On the same date he was sentenced to sixty years at hard labor.

The information charged that the appellant by force, violence or putting John Lewis Winters into fear, stole from John Lewis Winters certain personal property, to-wit, money, contrary to F.S. 813.011, F.S.A.

At the trial John Lewis Winters testified that the defendant on 20 September 1969 while holding a gun on him took money from the cash register of a store in…