State v. Sears

PRITCHARD, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of the commission of the crime of robbery in the first degree, and his punishment was set at 12 years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. The *492sole issue is whether the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for a mental examination under Chapter 552, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S.

The robbery was alleged in the first amended information to have been committed on or about September 24, 1971. The motion for mental examination; filed November 18, 1971, by appellant’s counsel, Mr. Haley, set forth “that he has reason to…