State v. Larson

Defendants were convicted of robbery and have appealed. The principal assignment of error questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. Singer, the prosecuting witness, testified that the three defendants induced him to go up into a hotel room with them and there robbed him of $350. The defense is that the prosecuting witness lost his money playing poker with these defendants. Accepting the testimony of the complainant at its face value, there is, without doubt, a conflict in the evidence which would make the finding of the jury conclusive. However, it is the position…