Legal Opinion

State v. Carter

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided April 10, 1972No. 56503PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FINCH, Alternate Judge.

Defendant appeals from a twenty-year sentence imposed under the Second Offender Act (§ 556.280, V.A.M.S.) following a jury verdict finding him guilty of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon. We affirm.

On the evening of May 23, 1970, William Joe Marcee, the attendant in charge of a Clark Service Station in St. Louis, was robbed. A black Thunderbird automobile drove into the station and the driver asked Marcee for two packages of Kool cigarettes. As Marcee was undertaking to deliver the cigarettes (2 packages of Kool filter kings), the driver,…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1969
  4. State v. MentorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1968
  5. State v. CamperSupreme Court of Missouri · 1962

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. State v. HodgesMissouri Court of Appeals · 1979
  2. State v. CollorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1973
  3. State v. HattenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1978
  4. State v. KnightonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
  5. State v. HarperMissouri Court of Appeals · 1977

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