Spencer v. State

Frank Spencer, alias Joe Brown, was indicted and tried for the offense of robbery. From the evidence submitted by the State (there was no evidence introduced by the defendant) it appears that Mrs. O’Connor and another lady were, standing on a street in the city of Brunswick, when the accused approached them and asked, “Will you please tell me. where Captain Dart lives?” and just as he said this he snatched a pocketbook, containing $7.50, from the hand of Mrs. O’Con-nor, and ran away with it. She testified, that she did not have, time to hold on to the book, it was all done so quickly; that,…