Stowe v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

Billy Jack Stowe was charged in the district court of Pontotoc County by information with the crime of robbery by force and fear. Upon trial, a jury found him guilty, but could not agree on his punishment. The court sentenced him to five years in the State Penitentiary, the minimum sentence for the crime for which he had been convicted.

The facts in this case, as shown by the record, indicate that two boys, Tommy Foster and Dorman Ray Tipton, ages 17 and 18 years respectively, and who lived in the country about seven or eight miles east of Ada, in Pontotoc County,…