State v. Bigley

November 6, 1931, appellant Bigley, Hugh Coppinger and Ben Lawley planned to burglarize a bank in Hazelton, November 9th. The state contended that Bigley proposed the scheme to Coppinger and Lawley, the defense the contrary. Aside from this conflict, without material dispute, the history of this rather unusual prosecution unfolds as follows:

Pursuant to arrangement, Bigley went in his ear, on November 7th, with the other two to Iiazelton, and reconnoitered the ban! and selected a place in the near-by countryside, where, after the burglary, they were to hide the money and their clothes worn at…