Sheppard v. State

JONES, Judge.

Albert Ernest Sheppard was charged by an information filed in the District Court of Seminole County with the crime of robbery with a dangerous weapon, a second and subsequent offense; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve 35 years in the penitentiary and has appealed.

The proof of the State showed that on November 26, 1952, the defendant went to a service station and grocery store operated by L. W. Brown, about five miles north of Wewoka, stabbed a knife into the neck of Brown and threatened to cut off his head unless he was given the money in a money box in the store. The…