State v. Harris

COIL, Commissioner.

Herbert W. Harris, Jr., was convicted' of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon and, in accordance with the jury’s verdict, sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. He has appealed but has filed no brief, and so we examine the assignments of his new trial motion.

The state’s evidence tended to show that about 9:15 on the night of February 5, 1960, three men entered the Reigel Service Station at 3720 North Kingshighway in St. Louis and there accosted Arnold Johnson, an attendant on duty. One of the men, later identified as the defendant,, had a…