State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

O’Connor, J.:

This is a direct appeal in a criminal action wherein the defendant pleaded guilty to charges of first degree murder (K. S. A. 21-401) and first degree robbery (K. S. A. 21-527) and was sentenced to consecutive terms in the state penitentiary of life imprisonment on the murder charge and ten to twenty-one years on the robbery charge.

The offenses of which defendant was convicted were the result of an armed robbery that occurred October 25, 1967, at the Kreipe Liquor Store in Topeka in which the clerk on duty, Eva C. Scott, was shot and…