Hoskins v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Represented by appointed counsel below and here, Hoskins comes to this Court by an appeal in the nature of a writ of error contesting his conviction of armed robbery and 99-year penitentiary sentence adjudged in the Circuit Court of Sumner County.

The defendant, his wife and another woman were jointly indicted and tried. The women have not appealed their convictions as aiders and abettors in the armed robbery, for which each of them was sentenced to the minimum of 10 years in the penitentiary (T.C.A. §§ 39-109 ; 39-3901).

We first consider the defendant’s last Assignment of…