Roberts v. State

Defendant was jointly charged with Morris Symonds and Roy Rankin, with the crime of “directing a riot,” in Tulsa county, on July 9, 1937; was granted a severance, tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

This is a companion case of Morris Symonds v. State, 66 Okla. Cr. 49, 89 P. 2d 970, this day decided by this court. In the opinion in that case the facts here involved are fully presented. The errors assigned are practically the same and it therefore becomes unnecessary to review them.

The evidence which connected defendant with the…