State v. Short

Appellant was charged, by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri, with the crime of being an accessory before the fact to a robbery in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon.

Upon a trial appellant was convicted. The jury assessed the minimum punishment prescribed for the offense, that is, ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The trial court, at the time of pronouncing sentence, assessed an additional two years' imprisonment.

[1] Appellant has not favored us with a brief. In his motion for new trial it was…