Dykes v. State

HOWELL, CHARLES COOK, Jr., Associate Judge.

Raymond C. Dykes was on trial before the court sitting without a jury, for the alleged robbery of Louis Estes.

After Estes had testified that prior to the actual extraction of the money Dykes “started hitting me . . . and the other man (accompanying Dykes) was holding me. and both of them started pummelling me. They had me on the ground” — and that immediately following the taking of the money Dykes “started kicking and beating me. My eyes were closed and my nose was busted and I was choking up blood in the car”,1 the State produced certain…