Brown v. State

CATES, Judge.

October 26, 1955, James Brown and five others were indicted for robbing Bill Johnson of some $800. He was tried in the Lauderdale Circuit Court November 16, 1955, on a severance. The whole of the evidence was that presented by the proescution’s witnesses. Conformably to the jury’s verdict, the court adjudged Brown guilty of the lesser included felony of grand larceny, and after allocution sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment.

■ Sometime early in the night of October 1, 1955, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson, an elderly couple who lived on the Savannah Highway in Lauderdale County,…