State v. Hicks

A jury convicted appellant of one count of robbery in the first degree [§ 569.020 RSMo 1986] and one count of armed criminal action [§ 571.015 RSMo 1986]. Appellant was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on each count. He now claims that the trial court erred in denial of his motion to suppress, and in the admission of his oral confession into evidence, on the ground that the confession was the result of an unlawful arrest.

The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

Shortly before midnight on March 25, 1987, David Williamson, an employee of Nowell’s Grocery Store in Columbia, Missouri, was…