Passons v. State

Appellants, Robert Earl Passons and J. T. Boyette, were jointly indicted with two others by the Grand Jury for the second district of Hinds County at the September 1948 term on a charge of robbery with firearms. At the regular February 1949 term of said Court, only the appellants were put on trial, resulting in a verdict of guilty of robbery and sentence thereon. From the judgment rendered, they appeal.

A- series of events culminated in the robber y on account of which this prosecution was instituted. On March 9, 1948, Phil Dear, accompanied by a Negro boy, went from his home in Rankin County…