State v. Rebasti

Appellant, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, was found guilty of robbery in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at ten years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. He was charged jointly with Ernest Hodges, but obtained a severance. He asserts here that a case against him was not made out, and therefore it is necessary to review the evidence.

The robbery was alleged to have been committed October 13, 1922, between eleven and tweive o’clock in the forenoon. On that morning one Thomas Crump, messenger for the Livestock State Bank, was carrying $9500 to his bank from the…