State v. Shuls

Defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree, sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

The State's evidence tended to prove that at about 7:30 or 7:40 P.M., on Saturday, January 10, 1931, the prosecuting witness Velma Fraser and a girl companion, Elizabeth Flannery, students at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, were stopped while on their way to their dormitory and robbed by a man whom they did not know. When they first saw the man he was standing near a hedge on the college campus. To avoid meeting him they started running across the…