People v. Glenn

In a bench trial, the defendant, James Rose Glenn, was convicted of the offense of plain robbery and sentenced to serve two to six years in the penitentiary. On appeal, defendant contends that he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

A review of the record evinces conflicting accounts of the facts surrounding the instant controversy. On one hand, the complainant, one Miles Cotton, testified that while he was driving his car on June 22, 1973, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the defendant motioned him to stop. Having known the defendant for eight or nine years only by his nickname of…