State v. Williams

DOWD, Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of robbery in the first degree, § 560.120 RSMo 1969, and was sentenced by the court to twenty years imprisonment pursuant to the Second Offender Act, § 556.280 RSMo 1969.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. The facts can be stated very simply. Defendant was convicted of the robbery of Paul Bolduc, a Religious Brother from Maine, who was in St. Louis for four days in June 1974 to attend a conference. On June 23, 1974, Brother Bolduc went for a walk along Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis. During his walk he stopped at a phone booth…