State v. Black

BROCK, Chief Judge.

The prosecuting witness in this case is an eighty-one year old woman who, on the date in question, was conducting business alone in her establishment when defendant, a five feet-nine inch seventeen year old male, accompanied by a fifteen year old male, entered the shop and examined the knife with the blade opened. There is evidence to the effect that Mrs. Carr was then assailed by both males who pummeled her head, inflicted a laceration of the ear, and then fled the premises with the knife.

The State’s evidence tends to show that defendant took, or attempted to take, Mrs.…