State v. Davis

SPINDEN, Judge.

A jury found Vinson Davis guilty of first degree robbery and armed criminal action. On appeal, he charges the circuit court with five errors: (1) overruling his Batson1 objection; (2) failing to declare a mistrial; (3) overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal; (4) overruling his motion for new trial; and (5) denying his Rule 29.15 motion for postconviction relief. We affirm.

The jury convicted Davis of robbing Gerald Haas on June 5,1994, while he was alone in a friend’s Kansas City apartment. Davis was one of three men Haas let into the apartment when they told him they…