Ratcliff v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The oifense is accomplice to rob bery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 25 years.

The indictment charged in substance that Paul Rhodes, Roy Wheat and Erwin Carroll on the 8th of January, 1935, robbed Erma English of more than one thousand dollars in money. Further averments were to the effect that appellant unlawfully, willfully and fraudulently advised, commanded and encouraged Rhodes, Wheat and Carroll to commit said offense, appellant not being present at the commission thereof.

Miss Erma English, the injured party, was employed by the Farmers Guaranty…