Esco v. State

OPINION.

CLINTON, Judge.

These are appeals from a judgment of conviction for aggravated robbery upon a jury finding of guilty. Sentence was assessed for each defendant at 65 years.

Appellants present three grounds of error. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

On May 7, 1978, at 2:35 a.m. a 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass was stopped by a Department of Public Safety Trooper for a routine traffic violation at a point off Interstate 10 approximately nine miles east of Junction.1 While Trooper Overstreet was writing up a traffic ticket, Deputy Chapman ran a “wanted check” on the vehicle’s…