Jennings v. State

This is an appeal by defendant-appellant Homer Jennings, Jr. from a judgment overruling his petition for post-conviction relief.

Appellant Jennings was charged by affidavit with the offense of robbery. Such affidavit alleged that Jennings took the sum of $90 from Ponciano G. Montmoyor on August 18, 1965. Jennings pleaded not guilty to the charge. Following trial before the court, he was found guilty and sentenced to not less than ten nor more than twenty-five years at the Indiana State Reformatory. Jennings’ subsequent motion for a new trial, timely filed on December 10, 1965, was overruled.

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