State v. Tehee

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This is a direct appeal from a conviction of robbery in the first degree and a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.

The facts as the jury could find them from the state’s undisputed evidence were that on March 1, 1968, the appellant, Lá-veme Dale Tehee, and another entered the A & P Store at 7131 Prospect Avenue, about closing time, and at gun point held up the store’s employees and robbed the cash registers of $882.00. The employees gave police a description of Tehee as either “Mexican or Indian” (he is said to be a Cherokee Indian), 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, weighing…