Nelson v. State

OPINION

REYNOLDS, Commissioner.

Appellant’s conviction for the offense of robbery by assault, for which punishment of fifty (50) years confinement was assessed, is challenged, not on the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, but on three grounds of alleged procedural errors. A preliminary statement is appropriate.

On the evening of November 5, 1971, two men, one of whom exhibited a pistol, took money from the possession of Eugene B> Jackson in the presence of Weldon Campbell, both employees of a 7-Eleven Store located on Peak Street at the intersection of Gaston Avenue in…