Selvidge v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the superior court of Pottawatomie county of the crime of robbery with firearms, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of 30 years.

The state charged that the defendant and one Bill Armstrong on the 23d day of November, 1930, robbed, by the use of firearms, the Bison Theater in the city of Shawnee, obtaining about $1,100 in cash.

The evidence of Jack Burger and Dorothy Clouse, who were employees of the theater company that operated the Bison Theater, was that on November 23,…