State v. Harris

KENNEDY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted after a jury trial of second-degree robbery in violation of § 569.030, RSMo 1978. In accordance with the jury verdict she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

Second-degree robbery is defined by § 569.030, RSMo 1978, as “forcible stealing”, which is in turn defined by § 569.010(1), RSMo 1978, as the use in the course of stealing of “physical force upon another person for the purpose of: (a) preventing or overcoming resistance to the taking of the property or to the retention thereof immediately after the taking... ”

Defendant appeals to…