State v. Reece

HOUSER, Commissioner.

George Reece, Jr., was charged and convicted of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and the jury further found that he had been formerly convicted of a felony. Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Defendant appealed but filed no brief, so we examine the assignments of error in defendant’s motion for a new trial. Supreme Court Rule 28.-02, 42 V.A.M.S.

Error is assigned in overruling defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of the State’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence. By…