Sitsler v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

The appellant, Robert Eugene Sitsler, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Mayes County, Oklahoma, Case No. CRF-76-101, of the crime of Robbery With Firearms, After Former Conviction of a Felony, in violation of 21 O.S. Supp.1973, § 801. In a bifurcated proceeding, the jury returned a verdict of guilty and set the sentence at twenty (20) years.

*1143At about midnight on the evening of May 29,1976, a man and a woman broke into the cabin of Charles Jackson in Salina, Oklahoma, by tearing the screen door and breaking the door latch. The man was armed with a…