Miller & Groffo v. State

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the offense of robbery. On March 5. 1958, appellants, Robert Miller and Tommy Groffo, drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sizemore, and there proposed to them that they would repair their cook stove at no cost. Mr. Jim Sizemore is 77 years old and his wife is 71 years old. Their home is on a farm three miles east of Springdale on State Highway 68. Mr. and Mrs. Sizemore are the recipients of a monthly check from the State Welfare Department in the amount of $44.00 per month each. '

On the pretext of repairing the Sizemores’…