State v. Carolla

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, upon an indictment returned by the grand jury September 7, 1923, was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of thirty years, and appealed.

The evidence for the State showing that the prosecuting witness was robbed as charged in the indictment is not disputed; it was corroborated by defendant's witness John Howard Blue. While the prosecuting witness positively identified the defendant as the robber, Blue testified that he could not identify him as the robber.

John W. Clohse had…