Napier v. Commwonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Watt Roberts and his wife, Nannie, lived in a two room house in a remote section of Leslie County. Early in the night of July 30, 1960, according to their evidence, the appellant, Bobby Napier, and Walter “Possum” Howard broke through their door, brutally attacked and wounded both of them with a club and took Mrs. Roberts’ purse containing $190 from a peg in the wall. An indictment charged Napier and Howard with armed robbery. ■. On Napier’.s separate *756trial he and Howard were positively identified by the victims of the crime as the culprits. There were corroborating…