Phillips v. State

Appellants were convicted in the circuit court of Scott county on a charge of robbery, and from this conviction and the sentence imposed, this appeal was prosecuted.

The testimony of Lawrence Russell, the party alleged to have been robbed, if believed, was sufficient to support the verdict of guilty. This witness testified that on a certain night in January, 1935, he and the two appellants left Morton, Miss., in a truck owned and operated by the appellant Beatty, for the purpose of attending a party several miles south of Morton; that at a point on the highway leading into Smith county the…