Cromwell v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Cromwell was convicted by a jury of attempted capital murder, with a sentence of life imprisonment, and of aggravated robbery, with a sentence of imprisonment for 25 years. He argues two grounds for reversal.

The two offenses occurred, as part of the same incident, on October 19, 1978. On that day a man entered a small grocery store in Little Rock, used a pistol to hold up the proprietor, Willie Woods, and took the money in the cash register. The robber then ordered Woods to get down behind the counter. When Woods was almost prone the robber shot him in the chest, in…