State v. Evans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of robbery in the first degree.

There was evidence showing that about two o’clock on the morning of April 18, 1924, the defendant, together with three companions, held up and robbed Henry E. Hopkins, agent of the Santa Ee railway station at Caney; that the defendant Evans, with one of his partners, who was in the back seat of a touring car, got out and entered the depot. They came through the waiting room to the ticket window. Evans was unmasked. The room was light. He demanded of Hopkins that he open…