State v. Harmon

The information charges appellant and one Paul Smith, jointly, with first degree robbery, but appellant has been tried twice alone. After one mistrial, he was convicted and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years. Judgment and sentence followed accordingly, and thereafter he was granted an appeal.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon of October 15, 1925, appellant and Paul Smith registered and were assigned to room "Number Two" in a rooming house conducted by a woman, known as Billy Schagel, at 115½ West Ninth Street in the city of Joplin, Missouri. Marcel…