Rice v. State

Mr. Chiee Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiffs in error have been convicted of bank robbery, under chapter 128 of the Public Acts of 1925, and given a maximum sentence of forty years in the State penitentiary.

The proof shows that on the morning’-of May 11, 1933, the cashier of the Farmers ’ & Merchants ’ Bank at Limestone went to his banking house quite early. As he unlocked the outer door and stepped in, he saw the shadow of a man upon a frosted glass, a part of a partition, within the hanking house. The hank had been robbed once before, and, upon seeing this…