Wallace v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Parker Wallace was indicted by the Tuscaloosa Grand Jury and charged with robbery. At a jury trial held in Tuscaloosa County, the appellant was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to forty years in the penitentiary.

The appellant, an indigent, is before this court with a free transcript and appointed counsel, who was also the defense attorney at the trial.

The sufficiency of the evidence was not raised, and a complete recitation of all the facts is not warranted.

The facts, briefly, are that the prosecu-trix, on August 25, 1972, was living in a second story apartment in an old…