State v. Frizzell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This appeal is from a conviction and sentence of and for bank robbery and robbery in the first degree which involves only the question of the admission of evidence concerning other similar offenses and instructions concerning such evidence.

The defendant was charged and convicted of robbing the Corbin State Bank in Sumner county on January ,6, 1930. Evidence was introduced by the state in chief concerning the defendant being one of the two men who robbed the Hiattville bank at Hiattville, Bourbon county, on December 23, 1929, just two…