Dorch v. State

CATES, Judge.

Dorch appeals from a judgment of the Lee Circuit Court holding him, agreeably with verdict, guilty of robbery for which he was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. This appeal is from Dorch’s second trial: the court before had granted him a new trial.

The defense was alibi and the principal claim of error was the trial judge’s admitting evidence of the finding of the victim’s door key a week later on a railroad right of way between the victim’s store and Dorch’s home.

Viewed from the verdict (as we are required to take them) the facts of the State’s case can be put as follows:

Mr.…