Wood v. State

The appellant, Mack Wood, was jointly indicted with Earnest Rose, Robert Smith Ballow, and Walter R. Scott, for the crime of armed robbery. After severance granted Wood was convicted and sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary.

The jury was justified in finding the facts as hereinafter stated. On June 18, 1953, Wood and his coindictees went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hendrix on Coontail Road in Monroe County. They rode together in a 1950 model Ford car. They arrived about two o ’clock A. M. Rose and Ballow entered the Hendrix home, where Donald Hendrix was dozing on a couch in…