State v. Cook

BARDGETT, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of first-degree robbery in a jury trial and sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, affirmed, and on application of appellant this Court transferred the cause here. Portions of the court of appeals opinion will be utilized without quotation marks.

The issue presented is whether the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s objection to the hearsay testimony of a police officer that two other witnesses identified photos of appellant as the robber under State v. Degraffenreid, 477 S.W.2d 57 (Mo. banc…