Sparks v. State

Appellant was indicted in this case charged with robbing "John Noles of seven dollars, lawful money of the United States of America." When convicted, he prosecuted an appeal to this court, alleging that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction, and the court erred in not giving the special charges requested so instructing the jury.

J.C. McDaniels testified that he saw appellant and Charles Eshelman feeling through an old man's clothes who had just gone out of his saloon; that the old man was begging them to leave him sixty cents to get his breakfast with. That one of them said,…