State v. Murphy

In the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis the appellant was convicted of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and his punishment was assessed at ten years in the State penitentiary. From this sentence, he has duly appealed.

The appellant has not favored us with a brief; therefore, we will look to his motion for a new trial for his assignments of error. As he has made many assignments of error, we will group them under general heads so that this opinion will not be unduly lengthy.

He assigns as error the fact that there was not substantial evidence to support the…