State v. Curtis

In an information filed by the prosecuting attorney in the Circuit Court of Livingston County, defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon, to-wit, a pistol. The jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty of robbery in the first degree as charged in the information, and assessed his punishment at fifteen years in the State penitentiary. An appeal was taken from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The evidence developed on the part of the State warrants the finding that one I.B. Owsley operated a grocery store in the city of Chillicothe,…