State v. Johnson

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Joseph Demarion Johnson was charged, tried and found guilty of robbery in the first degree. The jury fixed his punishment at 25 years’ imprisonment and he has appealed. The indictment charged that on August 25, 1967, Johnson, feloniously, made an assault upon David Weinstein with a .38 caliber revolver and “did rob, steal, take and carry, away certain property, to wit: one (1) .38 calibre revolver of the value of seventy ($70.00) Dollars, One Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($1,100.00) in lawful money of the United States * * * the money and personal property of the said…