State v. Rice

In the Circuit Court of Jasper County at Carthage, Missouri, the appellants were convicted of first degree robbery by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, to-wit, a pistol, and their punishment assessed at forty years’ each in the State penitentiary.' From this sentence they have duly appealed to this court.

Appellants have not filed a brief in this court; we will, therefore, examine their motion for new trial. The errors assigned in the motion are: The court’s permitting the sheriff to keep appellants shackled during the empaneling of the jury; the refusal of the trial court to grant them…