Easterling v. State

Caroline Coleman and Eva Easterling were on trial charged with robbery. The State sought to prove that there was a conspiracy between the two women and two men to rob a man named Christopher; that the women had persuaded the victim to carry them in his automobile to a certain point some distance out on one of the suburban roads, and one of them gave a signal to the men, who came up and committed the robbery. On the trial a witness swore that after the women were arrested, Mrs. Coleman, in the presence of Eva Easterling, freely and voluntarily said, “They (Coleman and Easterling) were out…