State v. Green

BERNSTEIN, Justice.

Defendant, Fred Green, appeals from a conviction of robbery in violation of A.R.S. § 13-641 and § 13-643, and from the imposition of a sentence of not less than seven nor more than eight years in the Arizona State Prison.

On December 2, 1964, Mark Foster, a Tucson taxi-cab driver, was robbed by two male passengers he had picked up in response to a radio call. Foster drove the two men from Tony’s Bar in Tucson to a nearby address where the robbery was perpetrated. The police arrived shortly thereafter, and by that time a crowd had congregated around the taxi-cab. The…