State v. Hackett

The defendants were indicted for the crime of robbery, the indictment charging that they “did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously make an assault in and upon one H. B. Mills, and then and there a box of automobile tire patching, of the goods and chattels of him the said H. B. Mills, then and there feloniously, forcibly and by violence and by putting him the said H. B. Mills in fear, did take, steal, and carry away.” The defendants were tried, convicted, and sentenced on this charge, and complain before this court of certain alleged errors made in the course of the trial.

The defendants…