State v. Hart

Appellants were jointly charged, by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Texas County, Missouri, with the crime of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. Appellants were jointly tried. The jury, by separate verdicts, found the defendants guilty and assessed the punishment of each at ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. A joint motion for a new trial was filed. The court overruled this motion and each defendant was separately sentenced in accordance with the verdict of the jury. From this sentence appellants were granted an appeal to this court.

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