State v. Brown

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree; given life term and appealed.

[730] November 12, 1945, Nick Patito was operating a package liquor store on the southeast corner of 12th and Park (2301 E. 12th), Kansas City. About 9 P.M. that day, in an attempted robbery of his store, Patito was shot and killed. Charles Leroy Crist, Charles Sickler, Dudley Knudsen, and Clinton Brown, appellant here, were charged with the murder. Crist, Sickler and Knudsen were present and participated in the attempted robbery, but appellant was not present. He was tried on the theory that he and the others…