Robbery case court records (1988)

John Wes­ley Ewell’s second strike con­vic­tion oc­curred in 1989, when a jury found him guilty of rob­bery. He and two oth­ers were charged with rob­bing a mo­tor­ist in an al­ley. Ewell al­legedly told the vic­tim: “Don’t move if you don’t want to be hurt,” be­fore bind­ing the man’s hands and tak­ing his wal­let, watch and truck. He was sen­tenced to eight years in pris­on.