Miller v. State

ROBERTSON, Justice.

The appellant, Eugene Miller, was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of armed robbery in the Circuit Court of Union County, Mississippi. He was sentenced to serve a term of 12 years in the State penitentiary.

The appellant and two companions, Andrew Nelson Milsap and Willie Pryor, had driven down from Kansas City, Missouri to Tupelo, Mississippi in his Cadillac convertible. Milsap had relatives in Tupelo, Mississippi and the three of them spent the night of September 25, 1968 with Milsap’s grandmother in Tupelo. On the morning of September 26, 1968, appellant and his…