Slay v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The offense is robbery; penalty, confinement in the penitentiary for a period of sixteen years.

In the indictment there are six counts. In instructing the jury, they were told in the court’s charge that the State had elected to prosecute upon the last count, which was the sixth, and which charged the offense of robbery of F. J. Hebert and Beatrice Lynn. It appears that the Barnes Grocery Company store, of which F. J. Hebert was manager, Miss Beatrice Lynn, cashier, and R. S. Powell, clerk and employee, was robbed by Riley L. Garsee, who presented a pistol and…