Shemwell v. State

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe defendants, Willie Shemwell and Franklin Jenkins, appeal from a conviction of robbery having each received a sentence of seven years.

On 26 January 1963 at about 11:20 P.M. “Bob’s Quick Shop” in Clarksville was robbed at gun point of about $500.00 by a negro man wearing a mask. On 3 February 1963 these defendants along with Curtis Singleton and Sollie Slayden were arrested for this robbery. Singleton and Slayden confessed while defendants denied any part in this robbery. These four were jointly indicted, but upon motion of the State a severance was…