State v. Taylor

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of first degree robbery. His appeal alleges the following errors: (1) comments and questions by the prosecutor during voir dire; (2) failure to instruct on the lesser or included offense of assault in the third degree; (3) improper closing argument by the prosecutor. We affirm.

As the victim exited her automobile to visit a friend in west St. Louis, she was accosted by a man positively identified as the defendant, who, at gunpoint demanded her purse. When the victim clutched her purse in fear, her assailant shot her, beat her about the head with his gun and…