Wilkerson v. State

The plaintiff-in-error, Jack Wilkerson, was convicted for having committed armed robbery and sentenced to serve twenty-five years in the State Penitentiary. He has appealed and has assigned errors which raise the following points: (1). the evidence preponderates against the verdict and in favor of the innocence of the defendant. (2). the defendant’s contention of double jeopardy should have been sustained because he had been previously convicted of another robbery which grew out of the same set of circumstances; and (3). the prosecution of the defendant in separate trials for two offenses of…