State v. Basford

Ruby Ennis had a pretty good idea who tied *523her up and robbed her on the night of January 29, 1967. In court, she said that she recognized the voice of one of them, and everything else in her mind added up.

The prosecuting attorney charged Tommy Edward Basford and Donald Charles Basford with the crime, a jury found them guilty, and they appeal. They challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and claim reversible misconduct on the part of the prosecuting attorney in arguing to the jury.

After her husband died in September, Ruby Ennis stayed on to run the combination cafe, service station and store…