State v. Hall

Defendant Tommie J. Hall, age 22, was indicted, tried and convicted of robbery with aggravation "as defined in sections 711.1, 711.2, Code, 1962. His appeal assigns four errors, tbe second and third of which are argued together.

The State’s evidence is that at about 12:15 on the night of July 8-9,1965, defendant drove his red and white 1956 Chevrolet auto into the Hudson Oil Company’s filling station at 928 Southeast Fourteenth Street in Des Moines and ordered a dollar’s worth of “gas.” After the attendant, Virgil Armstrong, put the gas in the car and went to its driver’s side to collect the…