Hooten v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— Robbery is the offense; penalty, confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-two years.

In a joint indictment, J. P. Slay and Landis Hooten were charged with robbery. There was a severance.

The evidence of the State comes from L. W. Currie, Sr., and L. W. Currie, Jr., who were inmates of the A. & P. Store at the time the robbery took place. Each of them testified upon the trial that the appellant, using firearms and putting them in fear of death, committed the robbery, and took from the possession of L. W. Currie, Sr., such money as he had, amounting to two…