State v. Moran

Mr. Special Justice Robert S. Clement

delivered the opinión of the Court.

The Plaintiff in error, Joe Clinton Moran, hereinafter referred to as the Defendant or by name, was convicted of armed robbery in Davidson County and sentenced to serve twenty (20) years in the State Penitentiary. An accomplice, William H. Buchanan, was tried jointly with the Defendant and sentenced to serve a workhouse sentence of eleven (11) months and twenty-nine (29) days and to pay a fine of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars. Buchanan did not appeal.

The Defendant Moran has appealed to this Court and has made five assignments of…