Brown v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Choctaw county, of the crime of robbery, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of twenty years. He filed his motion for new trial, which was overruled, exceptions saved, and the case is appealed to this court.

The testimony, in substance, on behalf of the state, is as follows: Pearl Campbell, the party alleged to have been robbed, at one time had lived in the town of Ft. Tow-son, and had been away from the country for about a year. A few days prior to the…