State v. Smith

EDWIN H. SMITH, Chief Judge.

Derrick R. Smith appeals the judgment of his convictions, after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County, of first-degree robbery, § 569.020, 1 and armed criminal action (ACA), § 571.015. As a result of his convictions, he was sentenced, as a prior and persistent offender, § 558.016, to concurrent terms, in the Missouri Department of Corrections, of life imprisonment for first-degree robbery and fifty years for ACA.

The appellant raises two points on appeal. In Point I, he claims that the trial court erred in overruling his Batson objection to the…