SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:
At his trial for robbery in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, Johnny Ingram testified in his own defense that he had not stolen the purse in question and saw it for the first time when it was introduced into evidence at the trial. The jury believed the state's witnesses, and not Ingram, or the witnesses that testified in his behalf. From his conviction and sentence of fifteen (15) years in the custody of the
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