State v. Townsend

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of robbery in the first degree.

There is no serious dispute in the facts. At approximately 9:30 a. m. on October 1, 1966, the defendant and James Harold Thompson, whom defendant had known for a long time, entered the Safeway Store at 22nd Street and Quindaro Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas. The defendant stopped immediately inside the door where he looked through a rack of phonograph records and greeting cards. Thompson knew and spoke to the girl at the first check-out stand. He then proceeded to check-out…