People v. Dozier

Purse-snatching (robbery) — bench trial — guilty—3 to 10 years.

Affirmed.

At about midnight on December 28, 1977, a man came into the Decatur Police Station and told Officer Ronald White that he had information concerning a purse-snatching. A couple of days earlier the informant had observed Tom Dozier in the area of 900 West Decatur Street with a lady’s brown purse. Later he read in the Decatur paper about a purse-snatching in that area at approximately the same time and he believed Dozier was involved in it. Officer White checked the police reports and discovered a report indicating that a…