Spess v. State

James Spess was charged by information and convicted of the crime of murder in the district court of Pawnee county, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The evidence on behalf of the state is to the effect that on the afternoon of the 12th day of January, 1921, three men held up and robbed the bank in the town of Tarlton. They came into town on horseback, and left their horses about a quarter of a mile from the bank in a creek bottom. Two of the men went into the bank, and the third was .stationed at a point near the Frisco railroad tracks between the bank and the place where the horses were…