Wheat v. State

Appellants were jointly prosecuted, tried and convicted on a charge of robbery. Each separately moved for a new trial, and each separately assigned as error the overruling of his motion. Hunter and Barger insist that the verdict finding them guilty is not sustained by sufficient evidence. There was evidence that the prosecuting witness, Ralph Rosen, lived in Louisville with his uncle, and worked in his uncle’s bakery; that he lost $100 shooting craps at a gambling house in New Albany, and then pawned his watch for $25 and lost that; that he had there made the acquaintance of Hunter, and…