State v. McCarty

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is a direct appeal from convictions of three counts of aggravated robbery (K.S.A. 21-3427). The defendant, Steven R. McCarty, was sentenced pursuant to the mandatory minimum sentence provisions of K.S.A. 1976 Supp. 21-4618, which applies to convictions of Article 34 crimes where the defendant used a firearm. The facts in the case are not greatly in dispute and are as follows: Count 1 involved the robbery of Griff’s Drive-In restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas, on October 30, 1976. Two restaurant employees positively identified the…