State v. Phippen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

Appellant Vera Irene Phippen was convicted by a jury of the offense of robbery in the first degree and given the statutory sentence. She appeals from that judgment.

Evidence for the prosecution revealed the following: At about 9:45 p. m. on October 13, 1969, a lone female, later identified as appellant, entered the Save-U-More Grocery located at Twelfth and Osage streets in Kansas City, Kansas. She was wearing a black scarf and a brown leatherlike coat and carried a hand-tooled purse. The only other persons present were three store employees…