State of Oregon v. Lanegan

Howard Lanegan appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of assault with intent to ■ rob. § 23-427, O.C.L.A.

The evidence on the trial showed that Jack Edward Davis and Patsy Davis, his wife, while asleep in the bedroom of their residence at North Bend, Oregon, were awakened at about 5 a.m. on August 18, 1950, by a man standing beside tbeir bed and shining the light of a flashlight in their faces. The man held the light upon Davis, and from a distance of about 18 inches menaced him with a short-barreled, silver-plated revolver of .32 caliber, and demanded money of him, saying: “This…