State v. Booker

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Defendant Joe Raymond Booker and Benjamin Henry Ward were charged by information with robbery by means of deadly and dangerous weapon. At defendant’s request a severance was granted. Subsequently an amended information was filed, in which defendant alone was named, charging the same offense under the habitual criminal act. The trial court held the proof of the previous conviction charged in the amended information to be insufficient. The jury found defendant guilty and fixed the punishment at imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years.

From the evidence presented by…