State v. Ransom

Appellants were convicted of robbery in the first degree committed by means of a deadly weapon, a pistol. Each was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary and both have appealed. They were charged and tried together below, filed a joint motion for new trial, which was overruled, and have filed a joint brief here on appeal.

The State's evidence tended to show the following:

J.F. Ladd owned a service station on State Highway No. 25, about two and three-quarters miles west of Cardwell, in Dunklin County, at which gasoline was sold, also lunches, cigars, cigarettes, etc. It was…