State v. Morris and Johnson

Lively, Judge:

The indictment charges that Pitt Morris, Tip Johnson, Grant Cochrane and O. D. Dillard, being armed with revolvers, feloniously did make an assault upon and put in bodily fear one Cal Vance and “one check payable to the order of O. D. Dillard, given on the Bank of Gauley, Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, in the sum of seventy-five dollars and of the value of seventy-five dollars, and one revolver of the value of' twenty dollars, the property of the said Cal Vance, from the person and against the will of the said Cal Vance, then and there, to-wit, on the day and year aforesaid, in…