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STATE v. WELLS

No. State 107.

51 Wis.2d 477 (1971)

187 N.W.2d 328

STATE, Respondent, v. WELLS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 7, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by Joseph C. Niebler, attorney, and Whyte, Hirschboeck, Minahan, Harding & Harland of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Niebler.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Thomas J. Balistreri, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief were Robert W. Warren, attorney general, William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, and E. Michael McCann, district attorney of Milwaukee county.

ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

The record in this case sets forth the standard operating procedures that mark the mugging-type robbery.

There is the selection of the victim. Senior citizens, particularly those living alone and suffering the infirmities of advancing years, are preferred targets. Here the victim, Frederick Gens, was an eighty-one-year-old man, living alone in a rented room.

There is the selection of the time and place. By advance...

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