Ham v. State

Appellants Bailey, Cole and Lee were jointly indicted and subsequently convicted by the court sitting without a jury of four robberies with a deadly weapon. They were each sentenced to concurrent five-year terms for the robberies of Howard Rogers (Indictment #4766) and Rachael Crowther (Indictment #4767) in the Hilltop Bar on September 6, 1967; and to consecutive terms of fifteen and five years for the robberies of Ellwood Daly (Indictment #4765) and Serge Padnuk (Indictment #4768), respectively, in Pat & Woody’s Bar on September 7, 1967.

Appellant Ham was also jointly charged under the same…