State v. Coburne

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. on September 23, 1971, two men, one armed with and brandishing a handgun, appeared at the cashier’s window of the Merit-Mart Store in Bremerton, Washington. One of the men announced to the two cashiers on duty, “This is a hold-up” and the other thrust a grocery sack across the counter. One of the men declared, “Put the big stuff in it or you’re dead.” The cashiers placed money in excess of $7,000 in the sack and passed it to the two men, who then departed. Outside the store, in the parking lot, as the two men were departing, one of them shot at and mortally wounded a…