Stone v. State

Roy Stone prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of conviction against him for the crime of assault with intent to rob.

According to the evidence for the State, in March, 1921, Roy Stone, Slim West, Bill Cox and Luther Stacks made a trip in an automobile from Tulsa, Okla., to Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas. After staying in Siloam Springs for a short time they started back towards Gentry, in Benton County, and stopped and robbed two buggies in each of which a boy and a girl were riding home from the meeting of a literary society.

Four persons in an automobile first held up a buggy in…