Taylor v. State

Webb, Judge.

Leonard Taylor, Barry Sewell and Cornelius Fincher were indicted for the offense of robbery by use of force of Kenneth Webb, taking $8 in U. S. currency and one brown billfold. Taylor and Sewell were tried and convicted of robbery by intimidation. These appeals are from the order of the trial court overruling their motion for new trial. Held:

The evidence is insufficient as a matter of law to sustain a conviction for robbery by intimidation as to either of the defendants. Taylor, Sewell and several companions were part of a crowd of twenty to thirty persons hanging around a closed…