JONES v. STATE

No. 38586.

216 Miss. 186 (1953)

62 So.2d 217

15 Adv. S. 2

JONES v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. McCrory, Jr., for appellant.

Geo. H. Ethridge, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


HALL, J.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of robbery under Section 2362 and sentenced to a term of seven years in the State penitentiary. He and several other Negroes were engaged in gambling with dice and appellant lost most, if not all, of his money. He then pulled a pistol and, according to the testimony for the State, verified by four of the participants in the game, he took practically all the money they had, including...

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