Cornett v. State

The plaintiffs in error, who for brevity will be referred to as defendants, were convicted in the district court of Caddo county on a charge of robbery, and were each sentenced to serve a term of five years in the state penitentiary. Defendant Evinger having left the state and becoming a fugitive, his appeal was dismissed.

On the morning of February 11, 192)4, three persons in a Dodge roadster car drove up' to the First National Bank of Gracemont. Two of them got out and went into the bank, in which the only officer at the time Was J. L. Cummings, bookkeeper, with a customer, C. L. Fowler. The…