State v. Strain

Defendant was tried and convicted for the crime of murder committed while fleeing from the scene of a bank robbery at Kaylor, in Hutchinson county, S. D., on April 20, 1935, and sentenced to serve a life sentence in the state penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he now appeals to this court. The state’s evidence in part is as follows:

In the early evening of April 17, 1933, a Charles Beatty was held up 'and robbed of his car, a maroon Chevrolet sedan, by two men just outside his home at Estherville, Iowa. On April 20th, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, three bandits held…