State v. Riddle

In an information filed in the Circuit Court of Butler County by the prosecuting attorney, defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty as charged in the information, and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a period of five years. Defendant appealed.

The evidence submitted on the part of the State warrants the finding that, on July 1, 1928, one J.M. Anderson, between sixty-eight and seventy years of age, operated a store in the town of Qulin, Butler county. He also occupied the store building as…