Peebles v. State

Elvin Peebles was convicted of murder and robbery by force and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant’s motion for new trial was denied, and he files this appeal.

The evidence disclosed that on December 19, 1974, between 8 and 9 p.m. Mr. Clifton, an 86-year-old man, was attacked in his home and robbed by an assailant with a claw hammer. The next morning at approximately 8 a.m. Mr. Clifton with head wounds appeared at neighbor Brantley’s house, gave him a phone number and asked him to call his son. Mr. Clifton was led back to his home where Mr. Brantley and a neighbor asked him several times…