Thompson v. State

These defendants were separately tried and convicted of burglary. The banking house of the Bank of Sharon was broken in the nighttime and the safe blown open by the use of explosives. A few hours later, these two men boarded the train of the Georgia Eailroad, at a' station near Sharon; circumstances raised a suspicion of their complicity in the burglary, and, upon telegrams, a member of the Augusta police force came upon the train at that point and arrested them as they were leaving it. They were searched, and large pistols and an unusual number of cartridges were found upon them; also on one…