State v. McDonald

Donworth, J. †

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence of conviction based upon a jury verdict of guilty of armed robbery.

September 26, 1964, two men entered a Seattle supermarket at around 9 p.m., shortly after the store was closed. Entrance was accomplished by pulling open the electronic “out” door, the “in” door having been previously locked. While one employee was forced to open the safe by an armed man who was allegedly the appellant’s co-defendant and who was referred to by the state’s witnesses as “the taller of the two men,” two other employees were forced into the store’s…