Butler v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Butler was convicted of armed robbery, an offense for which he was jointly indicted with one Jewell Germany. Trial severance was granted and Germany failed to testify. The victim Williams testified that he picked up the defendants in answer to a dispatch call, that Germany reached out from the back seat, put a knife to his throat, and demanded all his money; that he handed the money back to Butler, that Butler took it, jumped into the front seat and “patted my pockets to make sure.” At that time the defendant said something which the victim heard as “all I could pinpoint…