State v. Dowell

—Defendant appeals from her conviction of robbery in the first degree, and from the court's revocation of probation granted for a prior offense.

On December 20, 1978, upon arriving late for his job as janitor at the Town Theatre on Seattle's Pike Street and finding himself locked out, the victim was accosted by three young women who pushed him into an alley, searched his person, and eventually left with $27 of his money. The defendant Omisher Dowell, one of the ladies, was identified by the victim as wielding a knife and threatening to summarily render him eunuchoid. Ms. Dowell testified that…