State v. Smith

Defendant was charged with first degree robbery of Carson Jones. (ORS 164.415.) She pleaded not guilty, was tried and convicted. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of conviction.① Defendant’s petition for review was then granted.

On October 1, 1973, defendant and two other young women picked up a hitchhiker, Carson Jones. Mr. Jones was driven to a deadend street, threatened with a knife and what appeared to be a gun, relieved of his money and clothing, and left in the street. A short time later the three young women picked up three other hitchhikers, all fourteen-year old girls. The…