The People v. Hanisch

The defendant, Robert Hanisch, was convicted in the circuit court of Winnebago county for robbery while armed with a deadly weapon. He sues out this writ of error to reverse the judgment.

About 5 :oo o’clock in the afternoon of September 14, 1932, two men entered the Walk-Over Shoe Store, in Rockford, Illinois. They informed the three men who were in the store at the time that it was a “stick-up” and with drawn weapons ordered them to face the wall. The lights in the store were extinguished, leaving it in semi-darkness. Then the men were taken into the office, where one of the robbers stood…