State v. Wilks

This is an appeal taken by the state from the district court of Pottawatomie county upon the following questions of law reserved by the state in the trial of Roy Wilks, who with others was informed against for robbery, tried separately, and acquitted:

First. The exclusion of the evidence of the sheriff as to a statement made by the def endant to him.

Second. The court’s" advising the jury to acquit the defendant.

The evidence of the state fully proves that the robbery was committed as charged in the information, but the connection of the defendant, who was shown by the evidence to have been…