State v. Jones

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis sentencing appellant to a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary on his conviction, under the Habitual Criminal Statute, for attempted robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. Appellant not having favored us with a brief, we look to the motion for a new trial for his assignments of error, of which there are three. They relate to (1) the manner in which defendant was charged; (2) the propriety of receiving evidence of his prior conviction before appellant took the stand; and (3) an…