Smith v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction for robbery by snatching and from the denial of his motion for new trial. The trial judge sat as fact finder. The sole issue on this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence.

The state’s case consisted of the identification of the defendant by the victim as the man who had snatched her pocketbook (which contained over $600) and had run away after she had seen his face clearly; and testimony from other people that defendant had flashed an unusually large roll of bills after the day of the alleged snatching. The gist of the defense was…