State v. Caston

McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant was charged with armed robbery, tried by a twelve man jury, and was found guilty by a vote of 9 to 3. Follow*461ing imposition of a sentence to serve fifteen years in the State Penitentiary, he prosecuted this appeal relying on one of the three bills of exceptions reserved by his counsel at the trial for reversal of his conviction.

In this Court, counsel for appellant has submitted the case on a written memorandum wherein it is contended that Article 782 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which provides in part, that “Cases in which the punishment is necessarily at hard…