Edenfield v. State

The indictment in this case charges J. E. Edenfield, T. L. Edenfield, and Buster Bay jointly with the offense of robbery; it being alleged that they took one twenty-dollar bill and one' one-dollar bill from Bichard Smith. The defendant, J. E. Eden-field, was put on trial for robbery by intimidation and convicted of that offense. The exception here is to the judgment overruling the motion for a new trial based upon the usual general grounds and two special grounds.

The State’s case is substantially as follows: The three persons indicted were going down a highway in defendant’s automobile in the…