Mahoney v. State

The appellant and three others were charged by affidavit with the crime of automobile banditry (§3, ch. 54, Acts 1929, §2548 Burns Supp. 1929), by having “held up” with firearms the occupants of a roadhouse or filling station in Fountain County and robbed them of two slot machines which appellant and his companions removed and placed in an automobile, which they had at the time on. the premises and by the use of which they escaped. Appellant was tried by a jury which returned a verdict of guilty, and judgment was rendered by the- court (in compliance with §§3, 5 and 6 of the act, §§2548,…