State v. Chaney

HYDE, Chief Justice.

An opinion in this case, adopted in Division No. 1 but transferred to Banc, was not adopted in Banc. The facts from the Divisional opinion, hereinafter set out (without, quotation marks), are adopted as a sufficient, statement.

Lawrence Chaney and Herbert Metcalf were jointly charged with robbery in the first degree and each was also charged under the Habitual Criminal Act as amended in 1959, V.A.M.S. § 556.280. The trial court found one or more of the previous convictions as to each defendant, a jury found' defendants guilty of robbery as charged,, and Chaney was sentenced…