State v. Goodman
State v. Goodman
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The defendant was convicted of highway robbery, and appeals.
The principal question presented is. whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment. The .defendant contends there was a total lack of his identification. The facts and circumstances are substantially these: About 10:30 p. m., July 3, 1925, Allen Reeves, while walking along one of the residence streets of Dodge City was stopped by four men in a Ford touring car. Two men in the back seat, each masked, got out of the car and forced the witness to get in. One of the men was smaller than the other. The larger had a long blue-steel revolver; the smaller, a small nickel revolver. Both were under the influence of intoxicating liquor. After getting Reeves into the car, they drove to a cemetery west and north of Dodge City where they robbed him, then brought him back to town and released him about a city block from his home. The witness Reeves proceeded immediately to his home and telephoned the police. Within fifteen or twenty minutes from the time he notified the police, they arrested the defendant some fifteen or sixteen blocks from the place where Reeves had been released. When arrested the defendant and one Grady were in the back seat of a Ford car of the same description as the car that had been occupied by the robbers.
Under all of the circumstances we are not able to say that the evidence, together with the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, was insufficient to support the verdict.
A contention is made that the court failed to instruct the jury on the law of- alibi. The record discloses no request for such an instruction. Error cannot be predicated upon failure to give a special instruction unless request therefor was made to the trial court. (State v. Woods, 105 Kan. 554, 185 Pac. 21.)
The judgment is affirmed.
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