COBERN v. STATE

2 Div. 419.

142 So.2d 869 (1962)

James W. COBERN v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer P. Ames and B. Valentine Hain, Selma, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


SIMPSON, Justice.

Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of robbery and sentenced to death. The victim was Mamie Belle Walker, who operated Belle's Cafe on Alabama Highway 22 between Selma and Plantersville in Dallas County, Alabama. The property alleged to have been taken was a 1957 Chevrolet automobile belonging to Mamie Belle Walker.

The F.B.I. located appellant, a few days, later, in Chicage, Illinois, at which time he was in possession of the automobile...

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