Barnes v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The defendant, Cecil Barnes, was convicted of robbery and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. The alleged victim was one M. L. Coxwell, who was the only eye witness to the transaction other than the defendant and certain of defendant’s family, among whom were his wife, Louise Barnes, and his wife’s brother-in-law, Jimmy Douglas.

In addition to a plea of not guilty, he 'interposed the special plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

The fact was without ■ dispute that in April of 1942, the defendant received from Coxwell $59 in money and a check drawn upon an Andalusia bank,…