State v. Flores

Information was filed in the Circuit Court of Pettis County charging the defendant with attempt to rob. On the trial, January 18, 1932, he was found guilty as charged and his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From the judgment following he appealed.

The evidence shows that about ten o’clock p. m., December 24, 1931, the defendant, a boy sixteen years of age, went to the delicatessen shop of one Mr. Middleton. Virgil Hogan, a clerk, was present. The defendant was seated in a small eating room partitioned off from the main room. He asked that the light be turned…