Kirby v. People

The defendants were each convicted of the crime of robbery, and sentenced therefor, to the penitentiary, for a term of years. The person alleged to have been robbed was Ferdinand Grot, who testified, among other things, that on the evening of the 5th of January, 1887, a short distance east of Bast St. Louis, while riding along the turnpike, in his wagon, he met the defendants, traveling in an opposite direction, in a buggy; that as they came opposite to him they stopped, and the defendant Kirby jumped out of the buggy, and then into the wagon of witness, and seizing witness, bent him back…