Sistrunk v. State

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellants were convicted of robbery in the circuit court of the second district of Jones County, Mississippi, sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years each, and both appealed. They assign as errors, overruling by the trial court of a motion for continuance; refusal to exclude the State’s testimony at its end, as not establishing the corpus delicti; and overruling motion for a peremptory instruction of acquittal at the end of all of the testimony. They also complain that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and…