State v. Craft

By information filed in the Circuit Court of Dunklin County defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree alleged to have been committed by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, a pistol. The cause was sent on change of venue to the Circuit Court of Stoddard County, where it was tried, resulting in defendant's conviction and sentence to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appeals.

The robbery occurred on October 28, 1933, on a highway between Kennett and Senath, in Dunklin County. There was then no bank at Senath and Jones Brothers, a partnership, operated at that place…