State v. Johnson

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Richard Johnson was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree in connection with robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals from this judgment entered on the verdict.

The appellant was charged with the murder of Gwynne Aarant, which occurred sometime in the evening of April 18, 1975. Appellant was the manager and maintenance man of the apartment building in which the victim was a tenant. Appellant lived with his wife in the same building in an apartment down the hall from the victim’s apartment.

The victim was last seen alive by her next door…