State v. Casey

COIL, Commissioner.

A jury convicted Clyde Ben Casey, Jr., of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon and fixed his punishment at ten years in the state penitentiary. Casey has filed no appellate brief and we therefore examine the assignments of error contained in his motion for new trial. Assignments 1 and 2 urged that the trial court erred in admitting state’s exhibits 5 and 17, respectively, each of which was a portion of a lady’s nylon stocking which had been knotted at the top so that it could be used as a cap and mask over one’s head and face. The third and final…