Watts v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery. Punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.. According to the testimony, Mr. Arthur Wilson operated a service station in Castleberry, Alabama. On April 10, 1970, he was beaten and robbed of $750.00. The robber fled on foot and got into an automobile driven by defendant and the two men drove away.

The defendant admitted he drove the car and stopped some distance from the victim’s place of business; that his brother told him he had to “go see a man;” that he returned running and said,…