Cobb v. State

Marshall, Justice.

This is the direct appeal of Anthony Jerome Cobb from his conviction in Turner County Superior Court of the armed robbery and murder of Harvey M. Downing and his sentences of life and death, respectively.

I. Summary of the Evidence

The state presented evidence from which the jury was entitled to find the following:

On November 22,1976, at approximately 11:45 p.m., a carload of black males drove up to the Ashburn Motor Inn in a dark, late-model car. One of the men came in and filled out a registration card. The night clerk, Harvey Downing, asked him to write down his car’s…