State v. Manning

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Convicted by a jury of two counts of first degree robbery, violations of § 569.020 RSMo. 1978 and sentenced to consecutive terms of seventeen years and fifteen years with the Department of Corrections as a persistent offender, defendant appeals. Finding no merit to his two alleged points of trial court error, we affirm his convictions.

The evidence established that at approximately 8:45 a.m. on July 18, 1980, Irvin Bernstein, the proprietor of the Grand Medical Pharmacy in St. Louis, Thornton White, a security guard employed by the pharmacy, and a customer were in the…