MR. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.
Carl Ricks and Saul Colbert were indicted for robbing Bill Boekhoff while armed with a dangerous weapon. The robbery took place on March 12, 1962, and $2 in a billfold, about 80 cents in change and a pocketknife were taken. Ricks was tried separately by a jury and found guilty. He was sentenced to four to ten years in the penitentiary.
Boekhoff had left a tavern on Archer Avenue in Summit, Illinois about...
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