State v. Cates

Floyd Cates appeals from a conviction of second degree robbery pursuant to section 569.030, RSMo 1986.1 Cates had been charged by a grand jury on October 24, 1990, and a substitute information charged Cates as a prior and persistent offender. A jury found Cates guilty of second degree robbery on January 15, 1991. The court sentenced Cates as a persistent offender to twenty years imprisonment.

Cates filed a motion for post-conviction relief, which was denied after a hearing on March 24, 1992. The direct appeal has *18been consolidated with his appeal from the denial of a Rule 29.15 motion for…