State v. Hatley

FRANK B. ZINN, District Judge.

The appellant seeks a reversal of his conviction of the crime of armed robbery after a jury trial. He was charged with his co-defendant, Owen L. Perry, of armed robbery. Before the time of appellant’s trial, the codefendant, Perry, had plead guilty and been sentenced.

This opinion will consider first the second and third points raised on appeal. These, together, challenge the introduction into evidence, over objection, of written statements taken by police from codefendant Owen Perry implicating appellant in the robbery. The statements were neither made in…