State v. Barry

The State’s evidence tended to establish the following facts:

On the afternoon of October 16, 1936, the paymaster of the May-bury Shoe Company in Rochester and his assistant went to a local bank and there procured approximately $10,000 in bills and $300 in coins, with which to settle the weekly payroll of the factory operatives. As they alighted from their automobile in front of the company’s office (one carrying a bag containing the bills', the other a bag containing the coins), they were confronted by two men, who brandished revolvers and ordered them to “drop those bags.” They obeyed this…