Colley v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment, charging robbery, is against Bill Colley, Bill A. Cowart and Harold Leroy Liner. The appellant, Bill Colley, was granted a severance. On the trial he was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

The evidence presented by the state tended to show that Cowart and Liner, armed with pistols, on Friday night, March 4, 1960, entered the grocery store of Miss Era Lauderdale and demanded her money. Liner guarded Miss Lauderdale’s father and cousin while Cowart went behind the counter and took the money box, containing some $185.

Appellant was a…