Cobern v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of robbery and sentenced to death. The victim was Mamie Belle Walker, who operated Belle’s Cafe on Alabama Highway 22 between Selma and Plantersville in Dallas County, Alabama. The property alleged to have been taken was a 1957 Chevrolet automobile belonging to Mamie Belle Walker.

The F.B.I. located appellant, a few days, later, in Chicago, Illinois, at which time he was in possession of the automobile of Mamie Belle Walker.

The circumstantial evidence, aside from appellant’s confession, shows rather conclusively that he murdered…