State v. Lance

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

A Butler County jury found defendant Roe Harold Lance guilty of armed robbery, and fixed his punishment at 20 years imprisonment.1 We affirm.

Defendant’s accomplice and the victims of the February 17, 1975, robbery, Mr. and Mrs. Thacker of Poplar Bluff, testified the defendant was one of the two men who, at rifle point, robbed Mr. Thacker, a gun dealer, of an assortment of pistols, rifles and shotguns at the Thacker residence. The Thackers were bound, gagged, and handcuffed to their car by defendant and his accomplice before the two bandits left the residence with the…