State v. White

GREENE, Chief Judge.

Defendant, David Carlton White, was jury-convicted and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for the crime of robbery in the first degree.

The evidence in the record tending to prove White’s guilt is that on the evening of July 8, 1981, White and a companion named Tucker went to the home of Oris Flynn. Flynn, an 80-year-old man suffering from physical disabilities, lived “approximately, roughly, two miles” from Thayer, Missouri.1 Mary Presley, Flynn’s friend and housekeeper, and Flynn were in the home at the time. White drew a pistol, pointed it at Mrs. Presley and made…