State v. Knowles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

On October 17, 1970, the appellant and a companion entered David’s, Inc., retail store in Wichita. They went to the gun counter where they were waited on by a clerk named Andrew Corbin. Corbin displayed 30 or 40 hand guns to the two shoppers and, after fifteen or twenty minutes, left three or four guns on the counter for their inspection while he went to help at the cash register. While Corbin was at the cash register, appellant picked up a pistol, showed his companion that he had it and placed it beneath his coat. Retween five and fifteen…