State v. Decker

In an information filed in the Circuit Court of Pettis County by the prosecuting attorney, it was charged that defendant, on July 30, 1929, subsequent to judgments and sentences for grand larceny and robbery in the first degree in 1920 and 1921, respectively, and imprisonments in the penitentiary and due discharges therefrom, robbed the Community Bank of Smithton of $255. Tried to a jury, its verdict was guilty and the punishment assessed at fifteen years in the penitentiary. Defendant appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The evidence for the State tends to show substantively the…