Stanley v. StateStanley v. State
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Frank Stanley, plaintiff in error, here designated thе defendant, was on April 6, 1921, convicted of conjoint robbery, with his punishment fixed by a jury at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of 15 years.
This is a companion case to case No. A-4097, Shouquette v. State, 25 Okla. Cr. 169, 219 Pac. 727, just decided. The trial of this case followed immediatеly after the trial of the Shouquette Case. The defendants .in the two cases were originally charged jointly with the offense, but on application a severance was grantеd, and each was tried separately.
The facts as developed in this case wеre much like those recited in the opinion in the Shouquette Case,, and for the sake оf brevity they will not be repeated at length in this оpinion. So far as is material to the issues invоlved, the facts shown in this case differ from those in the Shouquette Case in that there was some positive evidence in this ease that nо part of the plans and preparаtions for robbing the Sperry bank were formulatеd or executed at Sandy McMillan’s roadhouse, as appeared in the Shouquettе Case; that, on the contrary, the arms used in the robbery were brought to Tulsa by the detective Saunders and were not procured at Sandy McMillan’s roadhouse. In this case there wаs more evidence tending to show that Saunders, the procurer and decoy, planned the alleged robbery, and induced the othеrs who participated to join with him in the forcible tak *198 ing of the money from the bank, and that without these inducements on his part the robbery оf this bank would probably never have occurred. Here, as in the Shouquette Case, it was shоwn that Saunders, the hired detective, was the chief actor, the man who forcibly took thе. money and distributed it among his companions, including the defendant.
As in the Shouquette Case, instructiоns were requested on these issues, which were by the court refused. The findings of law in this case will thеrefore be the same as in the Shouquettе Case, to which reference is made fоr a more complete recital of facts, in order to better comprehend and understand the deductions set out in the syllabus hеreto.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed, and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion and the opinion in the Shouquette Case.
MATSON, P. J., and DOYLE, J., concur.