State v. . Gillespie

The defendants were convicted on an indictment charging them with robbing J. E. Vernon, on 20 August, 1932, of two fifty-dollar bills.

The testimony of the prosecuting witness, J. E. Vernon, was to the effect that on 20 August, 1932, the defendants, about six o'clock in the evening, drove up in front of his home in a car and stopped. The house was about 20 feet from the road. The defendants Houck and Gillespie got out of the car and, on the invitation of Vernon, went in the house and defendant Ward stayed in the car and kept the engine running. The prosecuting witness, Vernon, testified, in…