Lewis v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This is an indigent appeal from a jury verdict and judgment of guilty as charged in an indictment for robbery, and a sentence of twelve years in the penitentiary. It is a companion case of one here released on the 22nd day of April 1975, 55 Ala.App. 128, 313 So.2d 555, wherein Lewis Edward Leslie appealed from a conviction of robbery growing out of the same circumstances here involved.

It appears from the evidence that one black accosted and by violence took a sum of money from the person of Willie W. Green, the property of Crown Central Petroleum…