State v. Knapp

Stanley Knapp, alias Ernest Stowell, Leroy Knapp, alias Robert Montgomery, and Herbert Allen, alias Clarence Hoff, were charged by information with murder in the first degree. The case went to trial against the two Knapps, Allen not having been apprehended. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in each case and a special finding in favor of the death penalty. The motion for new trial being made and overruled, judgment and sentence were entered, from which the defendants appeal.

February 15, 1937, the appellants and Allen entered the Security State Bank of Spokane for the purpose of robbing it.…