Walters v. State

PIERCE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Willie Walters, appellant herein, from a judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment entered against him pursuant to a jury verdict of guilty upon trial for robbery.

The main question presented here is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict of guilt. During the early morning of December 22, 1966, shortly before 2 A.M., two men, one masked and both armed with shotguns, entered the Holiday Inn Motel, located south of Bradenton on U.S. Highway 41, and forced their way into the private motel office, where at gunpoint they demanded…