State v. Gideon

MORGAN, Judge.

The jury found defendant guilty of robbery in the first degree and assessed punishment at five years imprisonment. Sections 560.120 and 560.135, RSMo 1959, V. A.M.S.

The victim was George McGauhey, sixty-seven years of age, who lived four or five miles southeast of Reed Springs, Missouri, with his brother, James McGauhey, seventy-one years of age. On the night of December 11, 1968, George and James arrived at home about 9:00 o’clock. George testified: “ * * * I fed my hogs and I went in and built a fire in the wood cook stove and put me on some supper * * * These boys come before…