State v. Johnson

The defendant (appellant), Donald Ivan Johnson, was charged by information with two counts of robbery. Pursuant to the defendant’s conviction on both counts in a jury trial, this appeal was taken.

On the morning of January 7, 1967, two armed men who were not wearing disguises robbed the 318 Tavern in Seattle. Mrs. Constance Hagen, co-owner of the tavern, testified that the robbers were in the tavern for one-half an hour. Approximately $500 in cash was taken from the tavern, and $27 in cash was taken from one Lorentz Lorentzen, who came to work at the tavern and arrived at the scene while the…