State v. Cooper

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Leonard Joseph Cooper, appeals from his conviction by a jury of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020 RSMo 1978, and armed criminal action, § 571.015 RSMo 1978. Defendant was sentenced as a dangerous and persistent offender to life imprisonment on the robbery conviction and to seventy-five years imprisonment on the armed criminal action conviction, the sentences to run consecutively.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged so a summary of the pertinent facts suffices. On March 27, 1983, at about 1:00 a.m., a bar in O’Fallon, Missouri was robbed.…