State v. Silsby

Defendant was charged jointly with three others with having robbed the Ewing Market Branch of the Canal Bank Trust Company, in the city of New Orleans, of $11,000. In a different count, in the same bill, others were charged as accessories before the fact to the same crime. Defendant was tried alone. The case, as against the others, either by reason of pleas of guilty, as to some, for a prior robbery of the same bank, or otherwise, as to others, has been disposed of, and therefore defendant went to trial alone. On his trial, he was convicted and sentenced to not less than nine nor more than…