Jenkins v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of Sevier County of the crime of robbery, and his term of imprisonment fixed by the jury at confinement in the State prison for the term of five years and six months. He has appealed in error.

The first assignment is that the conviction is not supported by the facts. The record discloses that on the night of November 7, 1896, the house of J. A. Burnett, in Sevier County, was entered by three masked men, and seventy-one dollars in money extorted from Mr. Burnett at the point of a pistol. The inmates of the house were aroused from sleep…