State v. Cole

The defendant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to imprisonment for 12 to--30 years. The crime was a strong arm robbery committed in a restroom of á bowling-alley in Omaha, Nebraska. The defendant was- appre-: hended near the scene of the crime and identified as the robber.. /The information originally charged only robbery. On the day the trial commenced the State was allowed to add a count that charged the defendant was an habitual criminal. Although there was no service of the amended information on. the defendant until the day of the trial, there was no prejudicial error because the…