State v. Reposa

This is an indictment charging the defendant with robbery. He was tried before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury and convicted. The defendant took several exceptions but the only ones he presses /before us are to portions of the trial justice’s charge to the jury.

The testimony is undisputed that on the night of September 26, 1961 the victim was assaulted by defendant and a companion, and money was taken from him. The relevant testimony of defendant on the facts material to the exceptions before us is that on 'the day in question he drank intoxicating liquors commencing in…