Kilpatrick v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the offense of robbery. Sentence imposed was for ten years in the penitentiary.

According to the state’s evidence, in the early morning of May 16, 1966, three armed men entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Farley in Cullman County, Alabama, announcing it was a holdup. Mr. Farley resisted, gunfire followed and he was shot in the shoulder and beaten on the head with pistols.

Mrs. Farley armed herself with r revolver, but threw it down when the men threatened to kill her husband unless she did so. Upon leaving the premises one of the men took…