Nix v. State

CARR, Judge.

On an indictment charging robbery, the appellant was convicted of grand larceny.

The evidence for the State tends to disclose that the accused went to the home of an old Negro man by the name of Ned Banks. Under the pretense of being a law enforcement officer and claiming to have some infractions against him, the appellant took the old man in a car and the two journeyed on a rather circuitous route. During the trip the defendant proposed to Ned that if the latter would pay him $100 the whole matter would be dropped. This was agreeable, and the two returned to the home of the aged…