State v. Norton

PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant appeals from her conviction of second-degree robbery following a jury trial. She was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to thirty years imprisonment.

On April 10, 1996, a loss-prevention officer at the Famous-Barr store at the Northpark Mall in Joplin, noticed Appellant and two other women carrying large shopping bags from another store into the Famous-Barr store. The officer observed Defendant put several men’s shirts into a bag and exit the store without paying. The officer then attempted to recover the merchandise and to apprehend Defendant in the parking…