State v. Stoner

The only issue to be decided is whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict, appellant contending that it conclusively appeared that defendant was acting under the Coercion of her husband. On her way home from St. Joseph, Missouri, over the Chicago Great *1305Western Eailroad Company’s railway, the accused was accompanied by her husband and little daughter. Upon her arrival at Des Moines, she carried a dark colored handbag from the train toward the waiting room; Before reaching that room, she was accosted by an officer, whom she told, on inquiry, that the handbag did not belong to…