Riggens v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal was submitted on written arguments October 19, 1967.

Riggens was convicted of robbery with the verdict also setting his punishment at fifteen years in the penitentiary. The trial judge found him guilty, and after allocutus sentenced him pursuant to verdict. Code 1940, T. 14, § 415, provides:

“§ 415. Any person who is convicted of robbery shall be punished, at the discretion of the jury, by death, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than ten years.”

Our prescribed form of minimal particulars in an indictment for robbery, No. 95, Code 1940, T. 15, § 259,…