State v. Chernick

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Defendant was convicted of assault with intent to kill with malice aforethought, Section 559.180, RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S., and his punishment assessed by a jury at twenty years in the state penitentiary. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

The charge by indictment arose out of events occurring April 24, 1953, during a robbery of the Southwest Bank at the southwest corner of the intersection of Southwest Avenue and Kingshighway Boulevard in St. Louis.

January 25th, two days before the trial of the instant case began on January 27, 1954, defendant was convicted of…