Weathers v. State

SMITH, Justice.

The appellant, Marshall Weathers, Jr., was convicted in the Circuit Court of Le-flore County of the crime of armed robbery and sentenced to serve a term of 25 years in the penitentiary. He appeals from that conviction and sentence.

Weathers was indicted jointly with William Hardin Bogard, Jr., and two others, for the armed robbery of Malouf Music Company of Greenwood at about eight o’clock on the evening of February 12, 1969. Severances were granted and the defendants were tried separately. The facts in the case are stated in considerable detail in this Court’s opinion in the…