State v. Wilson

The appellant, with two others, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, charged with robbery in the first degree. He was granted a severance, tried to a jury, found guilty and his punishment assessed at forty-five years in the penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

At about nine o’clock or a little later on the night of February 28, 1927, the appellant and two associates, armed with revolvers and claiming to be “Government men” looking for whiskey and marked money, entered a restaurant or soft-drink parlor in Kansas City and pointing a revolver at the proprietor ordered him…