State v. Reynolds

The appellant was convicted of robbery in the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas, on change of venue from Ralls County, and his punishment assessed at five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He assigns as error that the trial court: overruled his plea of former jeopardy; denied his application for a continuance; refused to discharge the jury because of prejudicial closing argument by the prosecuting attorney; gave improper instructions; refused his instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence; and failed to instruct the jury on all the law of the case.

At the trial appellant…