State v. Colombo

Joe Colombo and Joe Kowol were charged by information with the crime of robbery, in that they procured Grlenn Nettles and Frank Laws to take, by robbery, from the lawful custodians thereof, personal property (narcotics) of Yakima county. Laws and Nettles were arrested and charged with the same crime in a different information. They pleaded guilty, were sentenced to the penitentiary at Walla Walla, and were serving their sentences at the time of Colombo’s trial. They testified that, at the instigation of Colombo and Kowol, they committed the robbery, turned the narcotics over to Colombo the…