Stubbs v. State

Defendant-appellant Charles Earl Stubbs was convicted by a jury of the crime of robbery while armed.1 Stubbs was sentenced to the custody of the Department of Corrections for a determinate period of ten years. He subsequently filed a motion to correct errors, which was overruled by the trial court, and perfected this appeal.

The facts in the record before us, and reasonable inferences therefrom most favorable to appellee State, establish that shortly after 8:00 A.M. on January 26, 1974, appellant entered Ziker’s Cleaners, Inc., a dry cleaning establishment in South Bend, Indiana. Appellant…