State v. Mays

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant Charles Mays was jury-convicted of first degree robbery in violation of § 569.020, RSMo 1978, V.A.M.S. 1 and was sentenced by the trial court to a term of 20 years’ imprisonment as a dangerous offender under the provisions of §§ 558.016 and 558.021. This appeal followed. We affirm.

The relevant facts, as revealed by the record, are as follows. Robert Redfern was the owner and operator of the Ace Package Store in Chaffee, Missouri. On Friday evening, January 19, 1979, Redfern was in the store. A man came in and purchased three cans of beer. Mrs. Dannenmueller, who was…