State v. Taylor

This case was transferred by order of this Court after opinion by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. It was argued and submitted here on September 12, 1979. The opinion of Judge George F. Gunn, Jr., in the Court of Appeals is adopted, substantially as originally written, without quotation marks.

Johnnie Taylor was convicted in a trial by jury of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment pursuant to the Second Offender Act. He now appeals the conviction, citing as error: (1) the prosecutor’s display of police records during the cross-examination…