Hoel v State

Hoel v State
1934 OK CR 123
36 P.2d 951
56 Okl.Cr. 231
Decided: 10/12/1934
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; R.P. Hill, Judge.

Charles W. Hoel was convicted of robbery with firearms, and he appeals. Affirmed.

Moman Pruiett and Chas. Moss, for plaintiff in error.

J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

EDWARDS, P.J. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of robbery with firearms, and was sentenced to serve 30 years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that defendant, acting with two other persons, robbed a business concern of $624. That one Wallace, a participant in the crime, has since been killed while resisting arrest; that the other participant, A.L. Defer, is now a fugitive.

The record was filed in this court June 19, 1934; no brief in support of the appeal has been filed.

The identification was positive. No fundamental error appears. The evidence fully supports the verdict.