Brown v. State

The appellant, Lessie B. Brown, was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. She was accused of robbing Adrian Taylor of the sum of $3.50. She appeals from the conviction.

On September 3, 1952, appellant, a Negro woman, approached the taxicab of Adrian Taylor, a white man, in the City of Oxford about 10 o ’clock in the morning. She entered the cab and Taylor transported her west of Oxford to College Hill, where he stopped at the grocery store of Mrs. Lucille Shaw. Appellant entered the grocery store and purchased a package of cigarettes. She then returned to the…