People v. Mandrell

Plaintiffs in error, Joe Mandrell and Willie Marvel, were indicted and tried jointly in the circuit court of Franklin county for the robbery of Edward Tiberend, with revolvers. They were found guilty as charged in the indictment and their ages were found to be twenty-five and twenty years,, respectively. Mandrell was sentenced to the penitentiary and Marvel to the reformatory, for indeterminate terms.

The evidence produced by the State is as follows: A few minutes before five o’clock in the evening of January 14, 1922, while returning from his work in a coal mine at Buckner, about four miles…