State v. Smith

MAUS, Judge.

An amended information charged that the defendant committed the class A felony of robbery in the first degree by forcibly stealing beer in the charge of Ronald L. Lowther and in the course thereof displaying a dangerous instrument. § 569.020. A jury found him guilty. The court sentenced him as a prior offender to imprisonment for ten years.

Only a sketch of the facts is necessary to the consideration and disposition of the defendant’s one point on appeal. On July 11, 1986, Ronald L. Lowther was the sole attendant at a convenience store in Springfield. In the early morning hours a…