State v. Childress

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Ralph Childress, was convicted by a jury of first degree robbery, § 569.020, RSMo (1978), and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In this direct appeal, he contends that the trial court erred: (1) in permitting him to be cross-examined, over a hearsay objection, about a non-witness informant’s taped statement and in admitting into evidence two letters written by defendant to a State’s witness; and (2) in permitting rebuttal evidence by the State to establish that an informant’s statement to the police was voluntary. We affirm.

*613Since defendant does not…