CLINE v. State

This criminal action was commenced by an affidavit charging the appellants, Cline, Covington and Henry, with robbery pursuant to Burns’ Ind. Stat. Anno. § 10-4101, which reads in. part as follows:

“Whoever takes from the person of another any article of value by violence or putting in fear, is guilty of robbery ...”

A trial by jury resulted in all three of the appellants being found guilty as charged.

The evidence most favorable to the state shows that on October 13, 1966, three men entered Van’s Drugstore which is located in Indianapolis. One man, identified as the appellant Henry, stationed…