State v. Waite

The appellants, Lee Waite and Dewey Gilman, were convicted of the crime of attempted robbery. The information on which they were convicted charged an attempt to rob one Harry Bounds. The evidence introduced on behalf of the state tended to show that certain Chinese were conducting gambling rooms in the city of Seattle, on the second floor of a building known as the Bex Hotel. That, shortly before midnight of August 2,1924, the appellants, with others in concert with them, masked and armed, entered the rooms in which the gambling was conducted, pointed their arms at the proprietors and patrons…