Karnes v. State

Appellant, Karnes, was convicted as accessory before the fact to the crime of robbery committed by one Horace Dill on one W. W. Black on October 15, 1921. Dill had entered a plea of guilty to the crime of robbery, and was serving a sentence in the penitentiary when he was called as a witness against Karnes.

Dill testified that he and Karnes lived in Missouri, and that one Dozier Skelton, a brother-in-law of Karnes, lived on Black’s farm. Skelton told Karnes that Black habitually carried on his person from three to four thousand dollars, and these three discussed in the spring of ■ 1920 a plan…