State v. Dickerson

TITUS, Judge.

Kitt A. Dickerson, the 18-year-old defendant, was jury convicted February 25, 1982, in the Circuit Court of Barton County of robbery in the second degree (§ 569.030 RSMo 1978) and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. Defendant appealed.

On July 10, 1981, 76-year-old Thelma Elvy lived alone in a house in Neola, Dade County. Between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. someone knocked on her door and when she opened it there were “two boys and a girl there. They looked like just kids.” (Mrs. Elvy later identified the “two boys” as defendant and his brother Gregg Dickerson, and the “girl” as…