Williams v. State

Andrew Holland Williams was charged by information with four counts of robbery and with unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense. The firearm possession charge and one robbery count were abandoned by the State. At trial, the jury rendered verdicts of guilty on the three counts of robbery. The trial court adjudicated Williams guilty and sentenced him to three concurrent terms of fifteen years in the state penitentiary, ten years to be served and five to be stayed and withheld and the defendant placed on probation.

The record reflects that on September 16, 1974, a…