State v. Johnson

? and another were jointly tried, convicted, and both sentenced to indeterminate terms of not less than twenty, nor more than thirty years, in the state penitentiary. Appellant alone appeals.

The evidence for the prosecution showed that about noon, on September 29, 1925, appellant and his co-defendant entered the Queen City State Bank in Fremont, a suburb of Seattle. Both men were armed and ordered the patrons then in the bank and the officers of the bank to lie down on the floor. One of the clerks, named Jurey, ran to his room pursued by one of the armed robbers, succeeded in getting in his…