State v. Bellew

HOGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant Richard Stephen Bellew guilty of first-degree robbery as defined and denounced by § 560.120, RSMo 1969, now repealed. The trial court determined that the Second Offender Act, former § 556.280, was applicable and assessed defendant’s punishment at imprisonment for a term of 35 years. Defendant appeals.

On August 14, 1978, defendant and a companion “walked away” from the Ford-land Honor Camp, a place of penal confinement operated by the Missouri Division of Corrections. Defendant had been convicted of two counts of first-degree robbery in the Circuit Court of…