State v. Carter

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Judge.

Daryll L. Carter (“Appellant”) was convicted, following a bench trial, of one count of robbery in the first degree, a violation of Section 569.020. 1 The trial court sentenced him, as a prior and persistent offender, 2 to twenty years imprisonment.

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction. Viewed in a light most favorable to the judgment, the evidence revealed the following: On April 26, 2000, at approximately 11:45 P.M., David Hutson left his apartment in Springfield, Missouri to walk to his girlfriend’s nearby…