Noble v. State

The appellant, Isaac Ray Noble, was jointly indicted with William Alvin Wetzel at the February 1953 term of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County on a charge of robbery with firearms. A severance was granted, and the appellant was tried and convicted and sentenced to serve a term of 30 years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The testimony of the State witnesses showed that during the evening of December 16, 1952, between 5:30 and 6:00 o’clock, a stranger, “with sharp, mean-looking eyes set back in his head,” and wearing a khaki…