State v. Fadler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant was convicted of robbing the Lecompton State Bank and appeals.

The conviction appears to have been secured largely through the testimony of one Byron Lacy, who at the time of the trial in the instant case was an inmate of the state industrial reformatory at Hutchinson, serving sentence for car theft. The defendant’s principal contention is that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction.

Lacy testified substantially to the effect that he had known the defendant some three weeks before the robbery, which occurred on…