State v. Johnson

HOUSER, Senior Judge.

Maurice Johnson, tried before a jury, convicted of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020, RSMo 1969, and sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, has appealed, urging impermissible identification procedures and improper arguments by the prosecutor in summing up the case before the jury.

The State introduced evidence from which the jury could find these facts: At approximately 11:30 on the morning of May 17, 1979 two black males wearing nylon stocking masks over their faces entered the lobby of Farm & Home Savings & Loan Association, (at the trial and hereinafter referred to…