Hill v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Presiding Judge:

Appellant, Billy Joe Hill, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted after a trial by jury of the crime of Robbery With Firearms, in Case No. CRF-74-2993, of the District Court, Tulsa County. In accordance with the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to serve a term of fifty (50) years in the State penitentiary. He appeals.

On December 22, 1974, a convenience grocery store in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was robbed of $180.00 and an employee of the store severely beaten. At trial, that employee, Ronald D. Compton, identified the defendant as the man who robbed and…