Lear v. State

Frank Holt, Justice.

A jury convicted the appellant of aggravated robbery (Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2102 [Supp. 1981]) and fixed punishment at life imprisonment. For reversal, the appellant, through court appointed counsel, first argues that all four of the principal witnesses against him, Tommy Lear, Jerry Lear, Brenda Taylor and Bobby Goleman, were accomplices as a matter of law, and that the other evidence was insufficient to corroborate their testimony as required by Ark. Stat. Ann. § 43-2116 (Repl. 1977). We disagree.

The appellant’s nephews, Tommy Lear and Jerry Lear, took money, at gunpoint,…