Register v. State

On this appeal the appellant, James Edward Register, - assigns as error for a reversal of the cause (1) that the trial court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant for a directed verdict at the close of the State’s proof, and in refusing to grant a written instruction for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant; and (2) that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of robbery by the nse of violence as a means of taking some money from a billfold of the chief prosecuting witness, Miss June Flowers, and…