Everett v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

J. C. Rose and Spencer Adams, both of whom were white men, and Alto McGowan, a negro, testified for the state, in substance, as follows: The three of them came from Dallas into Ellis county on the night of January 28, 1931, to make a delivery of five cases of whisky at the underpass between Red Oak and Waxahachie, Texas. The whisky was to be delivered to Stacy Childress, whom the parties believed to bear the name “Bill Green.” They arrived with the whisky sometime between 7:30 and 10:00…