Brown v. State

At the March term, 1873, the appellant was indicted in the Chicot circuit court for robbery. At the same term he was arraigned, tried, found guilty and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. A motion for a new trial was overruled ; he filed his bill of exceptions and appealed.

The State introduced several witnesses, by each of whom she proved, in effect, that one John Burgman, at Sunnvside, in Chicot county, on the 22d of February, 1873, delivered to Jacob Frank eight bales of cotton for shipment; on the next day a steamer landed there, and the cotton was being shipped, ■when the appellant…