Williams v. State

— Appellant Williams was found guilty of first-degree murder and murder in the perpetration of a robbery at the conclusion of a jury trial in the Lake Superior Court on October 16, 1976. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. This case involves the robbery of a lounge in Gary, Indiana, by a group of men in February of 1976. We have recently affirmed the conviction of two of appellant Williams’ co-defendants, tried jointly with Williams in the same trial, in Rogers v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 370, 375 N.E.2d 1089 and Stone v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 672, 377 N.E.2d 1372. The present appeal…