State v. Thomas

The appellant, with Earl Davelaar, was charged with the crime of robbery. Davelaar having pleaded guilty, the appellant was tried alone. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and from a judgment entered thereon, this appeal was taken.

The sole witness to the robbery was Sam Poliak, who conducts a men’s furnishing store in Seattle. He testified that, on the morning of the robbery, between eight and nine o ’clock, two men, whom he identified as the appellant and Davelaar, entered his store and purchased two pair of men’s sox; that, after they started to leave the store, they turned, and the…