Wilson v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense robbery, penalty thirty-five years in the penitentiary.

The evidence tends to show that appellant with three others robbed a bank in the town of Lipan about the 8th day of January, 1927. His defense was an alibi. On the trial of the case the state placed one L. 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 Smack-over, Arkansas. Continuing, witness said: “This place that appellant was running was operated under the name of a hotel, similar to various hotels in the…