State v. Whitley

In an indictment filed in the Circuit Court of Pettis County, defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree. Tried to a jury, he was found guilty, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary. After motion for a new trial filed and overruled, judgment was pronounced on the verdict, and he appealed.

The evidence adduced on the part of the State warrants the finding that, in the city of Sedalia, in Pettis County, shortly after the hour of one-fifteen A.M. on January 6, 1929, the prosecuting witness, Henry Christian, after spending most of the evening in a place where…