State v. Davis

LOCKWOOD, Vice Chief Justice:

Defendants Jack Davis and William H. Sturgeon were convicted of robbery in violation of A.R.S. § 13-641 and sentenced to terms of not less than six years nor more than ten years. Defendants appeal from this judgment and conviction.

On the evening of November 8, 1966, defendants, in the company of John Wayne McSparin and Ruth Brees, were watching the election returns in a bar in Somerton, Arizona. Approximately fifteen minutes after the four had entered the tavern, they were joined by Johnson Sandoval, a Navajo carnival worker. Sandoval purchased a pitcher of beer…