State v. Myers

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of robbery in the first degree and sentenced by the court, pursuant to the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, RSMo. 1969, to twenty-five years in the Department of Corrections.

An understanding of the points on appeal requires a brief summary of the facts. Defendant was charged with taking the purse of Susan McCool by force and violence on the night of March 19, 1973 at 7:45 p. m. At approximately 7:30 p. m. on the same evening Mrs. Sarah Green was returning home from a neighbor’s house when a man carrying a gun grabbed her arm and…