Wilson v. State

Offense, robbery; penalty, 35 years in the penitentiary.

The evidence tends to show that appellant with three others robbed a bank in the town of Upan about the 8th day of January, 1927. His defense was an alibi. On the trial of the case the state placed one B. A. Clark, who, it appears, was an employee of a detective agency, on the witness stand, who testified that he had been in appellant’s place of business at Smackover, Ark. Continuing, witness said:

“This place that appellant was runnirig was operated under the name of a hotel, similar to various hotels in the oil fields, and was a place…