Coleman v. State

The appellants were indicted and tried and convicted of robbing Archie Reed.

I't appears that Reed lived by himself some ten or twelve miles from the town of Pontotoc. He was awakened one night along about the first of September, 1928, by some one calling him, he went to the door, struck a light, and then opened the door, and the two defendants grabbed him; one of them took the keys from his pocket, opened his wardrobe, and took therefrom a pistol and razor.. Reed resisted the attempt to rob him and was struck over the head and dazed. The state’s witness testified that he identified the two…