Brawner v. Commonwealth

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Stanley C. Brawner, Jr., and Roy F. Teague appeal from a judgment of the Hopkins Circuit Court where they were tried and convicted of armed robbery of a filling station located at Hanson, Kentucky and punishment was fixed at imprisonment for life.

The Commonwealth proved by witnesses testifying in chief that the service station located in Hanson, Kentucky, was robbed on the night of August 20, 1959. On the same night, within approximately one hour’s time, two other service stations in the same general vicinity, one in Henderson, Kentucky, and one in Sebree, Kentucky, were…