State v. Austin

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant, Richard F. Austin, was jury-convicted of first degree robbery, § 569.-020,1 for which he received a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment.

Evidence sufficient to sustain the conviction proved that on September 23, 1982, Austin and another man entered the Hillbilly Package Store in Willow Springs, Missouri, and took $350 at gunpoint from a clerk in the liquor store.

Austin’s first point relied on in his appeal of the conviction is a claim that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to dismiss the robbery charge because the state violated the provisions of § 217.490…