State v. Lowe

HOLMAN, Judge.

Defendant, Earl Arthur Lowe, 'was found guilty of the offense of robbery in the first degree and his punishment was fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. See §§ 560.120 and 560.135, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Mrs. Cornelia Crawford resided with her husband at 800 West 52nd Street in Kansas *53City. At about midnight on May 8, 1961, Mrs. Crawford was awakened and saw a ■person standing in her bedroom. Thinking it might be her husband she called him by name, and the person then flashed a light in her face…