Roberts v. State

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

Eugene Charles and Bobby James Roberts were found guilty, at a jury trial, of robbing the Gables Liquor Store at Ninth and Broadway Streets in the City of Little Rock. Charles was sentenced to three years in the state pentientiary and Roberts was sentenced to 21 years as a prior offender.

On appeal to this court they contend that the trial court erred in failing to grant motions for directed verdicts because of insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdicts of guilty and, they further contend that the trial court erred in allowing the state to argue on the subject…