Bond v. State

The appellant, Ernest A. Bond, was jointly indicted with Jim Allday, Jr. for the armed robbery of the grocery store and filling station of C. H. Gandy at Runelston, in Perry County, Mississippi, where they were alleged to have made an assault on him “by pointing a certain deadly weapon, to wit: A 22 caliber revolver, at him”, and having put him “in fear of immediate, grave bodily harm and death” and took from his presence and against his will approximately $350 in money from his cash drawer.

Jim Allday, Jr. entered a plea of guilty to the charge, and on the trial on the merits of the case…