Odom v. State

Appellant and five others were jointly indicted in the circuit court of Attala county of the crime of robbery. Appellant was granted a severance, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of ten years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The charge was that appellant with the five others robbed G. W. Blount of a pistol of the value of thirty-five dollars. The Aponaug Manufacturing Company owns and. operates a cotton mill located at Kosciusko. In August, 1934, many of the employees of the mill were on a strike; there was strong feeling between the union and…