Johnson v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent, was indicted by the grand jury of Covington County, June 17, 1977, for robbery. A jury convicted him after his plea of not guilty and fixed his punishment at ten years imprisonment. An appropriate judgment was *64entered and a timely appeal in forma pau-peris was taken.

The alleged robbery occurred on October 7, 1976, at night, in a more or less isolated spot on a rural dirt road in Covington County. The circumstances leading up to the alleged offense originated in Lowndes County at Ft. Deposit where the victim, Roger Lee…