Allen v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, robbery with firearms; penalty, death.

On the 13th day of December, 1927, the First State Bank of Carbon was entered by two men and the sum of $5676.00 in money taken from its vaults at the point of a pistol. The robbers were identified as one Scotty Hyden and the appellant. Hyden apparently worked on the inside, entering the vault and taking the money, while Allen stood on the outside with a drawn pistol and prevented any interference. The State’s testimony shows that they each and both participated in the robbery, after which they fled together in an automobile.…