State v. Blunt

I concur in the majority opinion with the exception of that part of the opinion dealing with the excessiveness of the sentence. My views on that score were set out in the former case of State v. Blunt, 187 Neb. 631, at page 633, 193 N. W. 2d 434, at page 436.

The defendant here took something over $100 in cash and checks from a cash register and pushed or shoved the cashier to her knees when she shut the cash register drawer on his fingers. He did not display or use or pretend to have any weapon.

It is significant that an habitual criminal charge was dismissed before he was sentenced. We have…