Bays v. State

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The defendant, Esco Bays, and a co-defendant, Dewey Linkous, were both convicted in the Knox County Criminal Court of robbery, with each receiving a penitentiary sentence of not less than six (6) years nor more than ten (10) years. The defendant Bays has appealed his conviction to this Court. Linkous did not appeal.

In his first assignment of error, the defendant alleges that: “The Court erred in not directing a verdict for the Defendant on the charge of Robbery at the close of the State’s proof and again at the close of the Defendant’s proof; and in any event the evidence…