State v. Tripp

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Defendant has appealed from a judgment and sentence of five years in the penitentiary upon conviction of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. Sections 560.120 and 560.-135, RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. The charge by indictment arose out of the robbery of approximately $12,000 from the custodian of money in the receiver’s cage at the Hodi-■amont Avenue shed of the St. Louis Public Service Company in the early morning ■of April 5, 1954.

The State has the theory that defendant ■was an accessory before the fact, and that, .as such, he was not…