STATE v. HINES

No. 8346.

6 Utah 2d 126 (1957)

307 P.2d 887

STATE OF UTAH, PLAINTIFF AND RESPONDENT, v. ERNEST HINES AND JOHNNIE LEACH, DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Haynie, Ben D. Browning, Salt Lake City, for appellants.

E.R. Callister, Jr., Atty. Gen., Vernon B. Romney, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


CROCKETT, Justice.

Ernest Hines and Johnnie Leach were jointly charged, tried and convicted of the crime of robbery. Both appeal, claiming some common and some separate grounds of error.

Evidence for the state was to the effect that during the night of October 8, 1954, the defendants, who are Negroes, approached Charles T. Hales, who was putting license plates on his companion's car on a street in downtown Salt Lake City. In response to an inquiry as to his...

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