State v. Cross

COIL, Commissioner.

A jury found defendant guilty of first •degree robbery and fixed his punishment at five years in the penitentiary. Defendant 'has appealed from the ensuing judgment and inasmuch as he has filed no brief, we examine the four allegations of error in his motion for new trial. Those relate to the sufficiency of the information, the failure of the court to have admitted proffered evidence of defendant’s character and to have instructed thereon, and to the prose■cutor’s argument.

The state’s evidence tended to show that •defendant and another, just after noon on a •day in August…