The People v. Harrison

An indictment returned in Macon county charged Russell Harrison and Kenneth Mize with the crime of robbery with a gun. A jury cleared Mize but found Harrison guilty. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on the verdict by this writ of error.

The scene of action was in Decatur, where the parties concerned all lived. Wilke, the complaining witness, a switchman for the Wabash Railway Company, received his pay check on December 8, 1933. On that evening he visited a questionable resort, leaving there a little after midnight. Pie stopped in a lunch-room for a few minutes, making a purchase of candy.…