State v. Towns

This is an appeal from a conviction in the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County of the defendant for a violation of R. C. 2901.13, armed robbery.

The facts, as indicated by the record, are that about 9:30 a. m. on December 10, 1971, John Butler, the manager of Sandy’s Drive-In on Mt. Vernon Avenue, was found in the basement of the drive-in, by two employees arriving to begin their work, critically wounded with two ,32-ealiber bullet wounds in his head. The office had been ransacked; the file cabinet had been opened, with papers strewn over the floor; and the safe was standing open with $100…