State v. Davis

BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury found the appellant Elmer, better known as “Tino,” Davis guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon and fixed his punishment at ten years’ imprisonment. The circumstances were that Theresa Flores and Theresa Quinn were employed by the Merritt Broker Service Company with offices on the fifth floor of the Altman Building on 11th Street in Kansas City. On May 26, 1967, earlier in the day Mrs. Flores had seen two men outside the office door and so had called her sister-in-law in another office to get in touch with the building manager. Because of a prior holdup a few…