State v. Hunter

The defendant, Bill Ernest Hunter, was convicted of the crime of armed robbery and has appealed, assigning as error the court’s denial of his motion for a directed verdict of not guilty based on the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to establish the charge.

In the early morning of May 24, 1962, Clarence Edgar Lemmon, the attendant at a gasoline service station known as Hilltop Flying A, located about two miles south of Boseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, was confronted by a man armed with a revolver and forced to lie on the floor of the station, bound and tied, while the robber removed and…