Lowery v. State

GREENE, Chief Judge.

Movant, Carl Lowery, was jury-convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, as a second offender, for the crime of robbery in the first degree. His conviction was affirmed by this court. State v. Lowery, 565 S.W.2d 680 (Mo.App.1978).

The basic facts of the events which led to the filing of the robbery charge are that 1) Lowery, David Russell, and several other inmates of the Jasper County jail were being transported back to the jail after receiving medical treatment at a Webb City clinic; 2) en route, Russell seized a .357 Magnum revolver carried by the bus driver, Deputy…