Spear v. State

Between 8 and 9 o’clock on the night of January ’28, 1931, three masked men appeared at the Reynolds Drug Store in the northeast section of the town on Van Burén in an automobile. Two of these men entered the drug store, and the third, described by witnesses as a very tall man, stood on the outside near the curb where the car was parked. All three were armed with pistols and masked, and the two who entered the store proceeded to rob it. While the robbery was going on a young man named Brown, accompanied by a young lady, parked his car on the opposite side of the street from the drug store…