State v. Nevills

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Edward Jeff Nevills was found guilty of first degree robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon and of first degree murder. He was sentenced to respective consecutive terms of fifteen years and life imprisonment.

The evidence leading to defendant’s conviction showed that when he entered the room of Mr. Cairo Fowler, Fowler and his friend, Shelley Pearson, were present. Defendant grabbed a gun belonging to Pearson. He took thirty-five cents from him and then forced the two men upstairs to Pearson’s apartment where he made Fowler assist him in tying Pearson’s…