State v. Thornton

LOCKWOOD, Justice:

Defendant was charged with the crime of robbery as defined in A.R.S. §. 13-641. He. was tried and sentenced to. .not less than, -.eighteen nor more than, twentyrfour years in the state prison, and appeáls from judgment and sentence.

On September 20, 1966 two men arrived at a Circle K store in Phoenix. At the same time a patron of the store, Judy Wilson, also arrived. One of the men, later identified as the defendant, pulled out a gun and held it five or six inches from the nose of the manager of the store, Lawrence Walmsley, and told him “[t]his is a hold up” or “stick up”.…